Fungal ferritins: The ferritin from mycelia ofAbsidia spinosais a bacterioferritin
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Animal ferritin and bacterioferritin contain quinones.
The origin of the 440 nm fluorescence of horse spleen ferritin and of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Azotobacter vinelandii bacterioferritin has been investigated using a Nitro Blue Tetrazolium/glycinate colorimetric test specific for quiones [Paz, Flückiger, Boak, Kagan & Gallop (1991) J. Biol. Chem. 266, 689-692]. The results of the analysis indicate that ferritin and bacterioferritins contain qu...
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عنوان ژورنال: FEBS Letters
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0014-5793
DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00667-9