Purification and characterization of the soluble methane monooxygenase of the type II methanotrophic bacterium Methylocystis sp. strain WI 14

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3929-3935

  Grosse, Stephan ^a   Laramee, Louise ^c   Wendlandt, Karin Dagmar ^b   McDonald, Ian R ^d   Miguez, Carlos B ^c   Kleber, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; ALKENE; AMMONIA; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BACTERIAL DNA; COPPER; HYDROCARBON; METHANE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; METHANOL; NITRATE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE CLUSTER; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; METHYLOCYSTIS; METHYLOSINUS TRICHOSPORIUM; TRICHOSPORIUM; TYPE II METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM;

EID: 0032851945     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.3929-3935.1999     Document Type: Article

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