Regulation of bacterial methane oxidation: Transcription of the soluble methane mono-oxygenase operon of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) is repressed by copper ions

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1289-1296

  Nielsen, Allan K ^a   Gerdes, Kenn ^a   Degn, Hans ^a   Murrell, J Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copper ions; Methanotrophs; Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath); mRNA; smmo genes

Indexed keywords

COPPER ION; METHANE; METHANOL; PRIMER DNA; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOCOCCACEAE; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS;

EID: 0029884241     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-5-1289     Document Type: Article

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