Identification of a conserved protein involved in anaerobic unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in Neiserria gonorrhoeae: Implications for facultative and obligate anaerobes that lack FabA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 489-501

  Isabella, Vincent M ^a   Clark, Virginia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 NITROPROPANE DIOXYGENASE; DIOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FABA GENE; FABB GENE; FABM GENE; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID COMPOSITION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NGO1024 GENE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIOXYGENASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; HYDRO-LYASES; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHYLOGENY;

NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 80054000309     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07826.x     Document Type: Article

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