Archaeal ApbC/Nbp35 Homologs Function as Iron-Sulfur Cluster Carrier Proteins
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Archaeal ApbC/Nbp35 homologs function as iron-sulfur cluster carrier proteins.
Iron-sulfur clusters may have been the earliest catalytic cofactors on earth, and most modern organisms use them extensively. Although members of the Archaea produce numerous iron-sulfur proteins, the major cluster assembly proteins found in the Bacteria and Eukarya are not universally conserved in archaea. Free-living archaea do have homologs of the bacterial apbC and eukaryotic NBP35 genes th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.01469-08