A methenyl tetrahydromethanopterin cyclohydrolase and a methenyl tetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 475-480

  Pomper, Barbara K ^a   Vorholt, Julia A ^a   Chistoserdova, Ludmila ^b   Lidstrom, Mary E ^b   Thauer, Rudolf K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

C1 metabolism; Cyclohydrolase; Methanogenic archaea; Methylotrophic bacteria; Tetrahydrofolate; Tetrahydromethanopterin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; METHENYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE CYCLOHYDROLASE; METHENYLTETRAHYDROMETHANOPTERIN CYCLOHYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE ISOLATION; METHANOGENESIS; METHYLOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOHYDROLASES; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC BACTERIA; KINETICS; METHENYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE CYCLOHYDROLASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033560681     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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