Halomethane:bisulfide/halide ion methyltransferase, an unusual corrinoid enzyme of environmental significance isolated from an aerobic methylotroph using chloromethane as the sole carbon source

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 4301-4312

  Coulter, Catherine ^a   Hamilton, John T G ^a   McRoberts, W Colin ^a   Kulakov, Leonid ^a   Larkin, Michael J ^a   Harper, David B ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; COBALT; CORRINOID; DITHIOTHREITOL; HALIDE; IODINE DERIVATIVE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; METHYL CHLORIDE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0032850676     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.10.4301-4312.1999     Document Type: Article

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