The F420H2-dehydrogenase from Methanolobus tindarius: cloning of the ffd operon and expression of the genes in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 389-398

  Westenberg, David J ^a   Braune, Annett ^b   Ruppert, Claudia ^c   Müller, Volker ^c   Herzberg, Christina ^a   Gottschalk, Gerhard ^a   Blaut, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Abt Gastrointestinale Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

^c Institut fur Genetik und Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron transport; F420H2 dehydrogenase; ffdB gene; Heterologous expression; Methanolobus tindarius

Indexed keywords

HYDROGENASE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; METHANOBACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; METHANOSARCINA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOLOBUS TINDARIUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, ARCHAEAL; METHANOSARCINACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032587270     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00564-3     Document Type: Article

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