Structural and Molecular Genetic Insight into a Widespread Sulfur Oxidation Pathway

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 384, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1287-1300

  Dahl, Christiane ^a   Schulte, Andrea ^a   Stockdreher, Yvonne ^a   Hong, Connie ^b   Grimm, Frauke ^a   Sander, Johannes ^a   Kim, Rosalind ^c   Kim, Sung Hou ^b,c   Shin, Dong Hae ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

anoxygenic phototrophic sulfur bacteria YchN fold; crystal structure; dissimilatory sulfite reductase; dissimilatory sulfur oxidation; DsrEFH

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; PROTEIN DSR; PROTEIN DSREFH; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; SULFUR; THIOURIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 56949086026     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.10.016     Document Type: Article

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