A newly discovered role for iron-sulfur clusters

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

Volumn 105, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 11589-11590

  Dos Santos, Patricia C ^a   Dean, Dennis R ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; LEWIS ACID; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SULFUR;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROLYSIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COENZYMES; ELECTRONS; IRON; METALLOPROTEINS; PTERIDINES; SULFUR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 50149106736     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805713105     Document Type: Note

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