The fumarate and dimethylsulphoxide reductases of anaerobic electron transport inEscherichia coli: current status and future perspectives

Abstract

Research on bacterial anaerobic electron transport is at a crossroads. The introduction of molecular cloning, expression and mutagenesis techniques are providing answers to many long-standing problems and our understanding of structure-function relationships is progressing rapidly. Future application of emerging biophysical techniques together with progress in crystallography promises to provide answers to our current questions.