Organization of the electron transfer chain to oxygen in the obligate human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Roles for cytochromes c4 and c 5, but not cytochrome c2, in oxygen reduction

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2395-2406

  Li, Ying ^a   Hopper, Amanda ^a   Overton, Tim ^a   Squire, Derrick J P ^a   Cole, Jeffrey ^a   Tovell, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C2; CYTOCHROME C4; CYTOCHROME C5; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; CYTOCHROMES C2; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OXYGEN;

NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 77951086574     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00002-10     Document Type: Article

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