The role of the Fe-S cluster in the sensory domain of nitrogenase transcriptional activator VnfA from Azotobacter vinelandii

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 817-832

  Nakajima, Hiroshi ^a   Takatani, Nobuyuki ^a   Yoshimitsu, Kyohei ^a   Itoh, Mitsuko ^a   Aono, Shigetoshi ^b   Takahashi, Yasuhiro ^c   Watanabe, Yoshihito ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Institutes of Natural Sciences   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azotobactor vinelandii; Iron sulfur cluster; Nitrogen fixation; Nitrogenase; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; NITROGENASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WHOLE CELL;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGENASE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII;

EID: 75149184073     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07530.x     Document Type: Article

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