A novel operon encoding formaldehyde fixation: The ribulose monophosphate pathway in the gram-positive facultative methylotrophic bacterium Mycobacterium gastri MB19

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 944-948

  Mitsui, Ryoji ^a   Sakai, Yasuyoshi ^a   Yasueda, Hisashi ^b   Kato, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBULOSE PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALDEHYDE-LYASES; ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; BASE SEQUENCE; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RIBULOSEPHOSPHATES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM GASTRI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033979478     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.4.944-948.2000     Document Type: Article

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