The formylmethanofuran dehydrogenase isoenzymes in Methanobacterium wolfei and Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum: Induction of the molybdenum isoenzyme by molybdate and constitutive synthesis of the tungsten isoenzyme

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 389-393

  Hochheimer, Andreas ^a   Hedderich, Reiner ^a   Thauer, Rudolf K ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Methanobacterium; Methanogenic archaea; Molybdenum enzymes; Thermophiles; Transcriptional regulation; Tungsten enzymes

Indexed keywords

FORMYLMETHANOFURAN; FURAN DERIVATIVE; MOLYBDIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TUNGSTEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME INDUCTION; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOBACTERIUM THERMOAUTOTROPHICUM; METHANOBACTERIUM WOLFEI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, REGULATOR; METHANOBACTERIUM; MOLYBDENUM; OPEN READING FRAMES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOTHERMOBACTER THERMAUTOTROPHICUS; METHANOTHERMOBACTER WOLFEII; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031664705     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050658     Document Type: Article

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