Siro(haem)amide in Allochromatium vinosum and relevance of DsrL and DsrN, a homolog of cobyrinic acid a,c-diamide synthase, for sulphur oxidation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 194-202

  Lübbe, Yvonne J ^a   Youn, Hyung Sun ^b,c   Timkovich, Russell ^b   Dahl, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c Seoul University of Venture and Information   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Allochromatium vinosum; dsr genes; Phototrophic sulphur bacteria; Siro(haem)amide; Sulphite reductase; Sulphur oxidation

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; COBYRINIC ACID A,C DIAMIDE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SULFUR; SYNTHETASE; THIOSULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMIDATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATIACEAE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; HEME; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SULFUR;

ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SIRO;

EID: 33746488266     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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