On the road to improve the bioremediation and electricity-harvesting skills of Geobacter sulfurreducens: Functional and structural characterization of multihaem cytochromes

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1295-1301

  Morgado, Leonor ^a   Fernandes, Ana P ^a   Dantas, Joana M ^a   Silva, Marta A ^a   Salgueiro, Carlos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Extracellular electron transfer; Geobacter sulfurreducens; Multihaem cytochrome; Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); Protein structure

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; MULTIHAEM CYTOCHROME; PHENYLALANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BETA SHEET; BIOENGINEERING; BIOREMEDIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; ISOTOPE LABELING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTON TRANSPORT; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CYTOCHROMES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GEOBACTER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

GEOBACTER SP.; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 84870204678     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20120099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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