Hydrogen production by termite gut protists: Characterization of iron hydrogenases of parabasalian symbionts of the termite Coptotermes formosanus

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1925-1932

  Inoue, Jun Ichi ^a,b   Saita, Kanako ^a,c   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a   Ui, Sadaharu ^b   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; IRON HYDROGENASE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FLAGELLATE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOPTERA; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PH; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROGENASE; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; ISOPTERA; KINETICS; MASTIGOPHORA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; EUKARYOTA; ISOPTERA; PARABASALIDEA; PROTISTA; PSEUDOTRICHONYMPHA GRASSII;

EID: 35348823800     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00251-07     Document Type: Article

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