Characterization of an unusual LOV domain protein in the α-proteobacterium rhodobacter sphaeroides

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1254-1259

  Hendrischk, Anne Kathrin ^a   Moldt, Julia ^b   Frühwirth, Sebastian Walter ^a   Klug, Gabriele ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES 2.4.1;

EID: 69649083589     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2009.00554.x     Document Type: Article

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