The interaction of spinach nitrite reductase with ferredoxin: A site-directed mutation study

Molecular Plant

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 407-415

  Hirasawa, Masakazu ^a   Tripathy, Jatindra N ^a   Somasundaram, Ramasamy ^b   Johnson, Michael K ^b   Bhalla, Megha ^a   Allen, James P ^c   Knaff, David B ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron transport; Enzymology; Molecular biology; Nitrogen metabolism

Indexed keywords

SPINACIA OLERACEA;

FERREDOXIN; FERREDOXIN NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPINACH;

BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FERREDOXIN-NITRITE REDUCTASE; FERREDOXINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NITRITE REDUCTASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 76149113995     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssn098     Document Type: Article

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