Fe-S cluster biogenesis in gram-positive bacteria: SufU Is a zinc-dependent sulfur transfer protein

Biochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 152-160

  Selbach, Bruna P ^a   Chung, Alexander H ^a   Scott, Aubrey D ^b   George, Simon J ^b   Cramer, Stephen P ^b   Dos Santos, Patricia C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SYSTEMS; CYSTEINE DESULFURASE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; KINETIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEOPHILIC ATTACK; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; PROTEINS; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; ZINC;

SULFUR;

CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; CYSTEINE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; SUFU PROTEIN; SULFURTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOGENESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; KINETICS; MOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOPHILICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CYSTEINE; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; SULFOTRANSFERASES; SULFUR; SULFURTRANSFERASES; ZINC;

EID: 84892609770     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi4011978     Document Type: Article

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