Adaptation to a high-tungsten environment: Pyrobaculum aerophilum contains an active tungsten nitrate reductase

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 9911-9921

  De Vries, Simon ^a   Momcilovic, Milica ^b   Strampraad, Marc J F ^a   Whitelegge, Julian P ^b   Baghai, Ashkan ^b   Schröder, Imke ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; BELONG TO; BIDENTATE LIGANDS; COFACTORS; DINUCLEOTIDES; ELECTRON DONORS; HYPERTHERMOPHILES; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC; MEMBRANE ANCHORS; MIDPOINT POTENTIALS; MOLYBDOENZYMES; MOLYBDOPTERIN; MONODENTATES; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PROTON-MOTIVE FORCES; PYROBACULUM AEROPHILUM; REDOX TITRATIONS; TURNOVER NUMBER;

BACTERIOLOGY; ENZYMES; LIGANDS; NITRATES; PORPHYRINS; PURIFICATION; TUNGSTEN;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

ASPARTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FORMIC ACID; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; QUINOLINE; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL GROWTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEON; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROBACULUM; PYROBACULUM AEROPHILUM; TITRIMETRY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENT; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PYROBACULUM; TUNGSTEN;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PYROBACULUM AEROPHILUM;

EID: 78149435831     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi100974v     Document Type: Article

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