Molecular analysis of the pmo (particulate methane monooxygenase) operons from two type II methanotrophs

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 966-975

  Gilbert, Bettina ^a   McDonald, Ian R ^a   Finch, Ruth ^a   Stafford, Graham P ^a   Nielsen, Allan K ^a,b   Murrell, J Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHANE; METHYLOSINUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OXYGENASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHYLOCOCCUS; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS STR. BATH; METHYLOCYSTACEAE; METHYLOCYSTIS; METHYLOSINUS TRICHOSPORIUM; PROKARYOTA; TRICHOSPORIUM;

EID: 0034008526     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.3.966-975.2000     Document Type: Article

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