A critical role for the ccca gene product, cytochrome c2, in diverting electrons from aerobic respiration to denitrification in neisseria gonorrhoeae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2518-2529

  Hopper, Amanda C ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Cole, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C2; CYTOCHROME C3; CYTOCHROME C5; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE CBB3; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CCCA GENE; CCOP GENE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCA GENE; CYCB GENE; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; CYTOCHROMES C2; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEME; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84877987610     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02300-12     Document Type: Article

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