Methylcobalamin:coenzyme M methyltransferase isoenzymes MtaA and MtbA from Methanosarcina barkeri: Cloning, sequencing and differential transcription of the encoding genes, and functional overexpression of the mtaA gene in Escherichia coli

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 653-659

  Harms, Ulrike ^a   Thauer, Rudolf K ^a,b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corrinoids; Methanogenic Archaea; Methanosarcina barkeri; Methyltransferases; Uroporphyrinogen III

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOENZYMES; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI;

EID: 0029671414     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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