Puf operon sequences and inferred structures of light-harvesting complexes of three closely related Chromatiaceae exhibiting different absorption characteristics

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 123-134

  Rücker, Ovidiu ^a,b   Köhler, Anne ^a   Behammer, Beate ^a   Sichau, Katja ^a   Overmann, Jörg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D modeling; Anoxygenic photosynthesis; Chromatiaceae; Light harvesting complex; Photosynthesis genes; Puf genes; Purple sulfur bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; HISTIDINE; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

ABSORPTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; CHROMATIACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUF GENE; PUFB1A1 GENE; PUFBA GENE; PUFC GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THERMOCHROMATIUM TEPIDUM; THIORHODOVIBRIO WINOGRADSKYI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATIACEAE; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMATIACEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA; THERMOCHROMATIUM; THIORHODOVIBRIO;

EID: 84857063299     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: 1432072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-011-0735-4     Document Type: Article

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