Discovery and characterization of a unique mycobacterial heme acquisition system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5051-5056

  Tullius, Michael V ^b   Harmston, Christine A ^a   Owens, Cedric P ^a   Chim, Nicholas ^a   Morse, Robert P ^a   McMath, Lisa M ^a   Iniguez, Angelina ^a   Kimmey, Jacqueline M ^b   Sawaya, Michael R ^b   Whitelegge, Julian P ^c   Horwitz, Marcus A ^b   Goulding, Celia W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Iron uptake; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOPROTEIN; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN RV0203; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; HEME; IRON; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79953175298     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009516108     Document Type: Article

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