Overexpression of the coenzyme-F420-dependent N5,N10-methylenetetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenase gene from the hyperthermophilic Methanopyrus kandleri

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 386-391

  Klein, Andreas R ^a   Thauer, Rudolf K ^a,b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterologous expression; Hyperthermophilic enzyme; Lyotropic salts; Methanogenic Archaea; Thermostability

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; BACTERIAL DNA; METHYLENETETRAHYDROMETHANOPTERIN DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; METHANOBACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSTABILITY; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOPYRUS KANDLERI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-NH GROUP DONORS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0030610167     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.t01-1-00386.x     Document Type: Article

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