Structural analysis of alternative complex III in the photosynthetic electron transfer chain of chloroflexus aurantiacus

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 6670-6679

  Gao, Xinliu ^a   Xin, Yueyong ^a,b   Bell, Patrick D ^a   Wen, Jianzhong ^a   Blankenship, Robert E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DATA; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; CHEMICAL CROSS-LINKING; COMPLEX FUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; HOMODIMERS; INTEGRAL MEMBRANE PROTEINS; INTENSITY ANALYSIS; IRON-SULFUR CLUSTERS; MALDI-TOF; MASS ANALYSIS; METALLOPROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIAS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ELECTRON TRANSFER; PHOTOTROPHS; POTENTIOMETRIC TITRATIONS; REACTION CENTER; RESPIRATORY ELECTRONS; SDS-PAGE; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TERMINAL OXIDASE; TRANSIT PEPTIDES; TRANSMEMBRANES;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CROSSLINKING; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HEMOGLOBIN; METAL REFINING; MODEL STRUCTURES; PORPHYRINS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SULFUR; TITRATION;

METAL ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE COMPLEX III; CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME BC; HEME; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLOROFLEXUS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; CROSS LINKING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; CHLOROFLEXUS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN COMPLEX PROTEINS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX III; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METALLOPROTEINS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 77955236947     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi100858k     Document Type: Article

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