Molecular genetics of the Genus paracoccus: Metabolically versatile bacteria with bioenergetic flexibility

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1046-1078

  Baker, Simon C ^a   Ferguson, Stuart J ^a,b   Ludwig, Bernd ^c   Page, M Dudley ^a,b   Richter, Oliver Matthias H ^c   Van Spanning, Rob J M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; FLAVOPROTEIN; FORMALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; METHANOL DEHYDROGENASE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITROUS OXIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); RNA POLYMERASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BINDING SITE; BIOENERGY; BIOGENESIS; DENITRIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PARACOCCUS VERSUTUS; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTERACEAE; THIOBACILLUS; THIOBACILLUS VERSUTUS;

EID: 0031793773     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.62.4.1046-1078.1998     Document Type: Article

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