In vivo iron-sulfur cluster formation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 8591-8596

  Raulfs, Estella C ^a   O'Carroll, Ina P ^a   Dos Santos, Patricia C ^a   Unciuleac, Mihaela Carmen ^a,b   Dean, Dennis R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Azotobacter; Isc; IscS; IscU; Scaffold

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; IRON; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; SULFUR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MATURATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; STOICHIOMETRY;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; KINETICS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

AZOTOBACTER; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII;

EID: 47249089534     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803173105     Document Type: Article

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