High-affinity methane oxidation by a soil enrichment culture containing a type II methanotroph

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1009-1014

  Dunfield, Peter F ^a,b   Liesack, Werner ^a   Henckel, Thilo ^a   Knowles, Roger ^b   Conrad, Ralf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENE SEQUENCE; METABOLIC RATE; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0032987440     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.3.1009-1014.1999     Document Type: Article

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