Mobilization of sulfane sulfur from cysteine desulfurases to the Azotobacter vinelandii sulfurtransferase RhdA

Amino Acids

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-150

  Cartini, Francesca ^a   Remelli, William ^a   Santos, Patricia C Dos ^b   Papenbrock, Jutta ^c   Pagani, Silvia ^a   Forlani, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azotobacter vinelandii; Cysteine desulfurase; L Cysteine; RhdA; Sulfurtransferase; Thiosulfate

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; CYSTEINE; ENZYME RHDA; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFURIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CYSTEINE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFURTRANSFERASES;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII;

EID: 79960413337     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-010-0529-z     Document Type: Article

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