Improved system for protein engineering of the hydroxylase component of soluble methane monooxygenase

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 5265-5273

  Smith, Thomas J ^a   Slade, Susan E ^a   Burton, Nicolas P ^a   Murrell, J Colin ^a   Dalton, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ENZYMES; IRON; METHANE; MUTAGENESIS;

SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

MICROORGANISMS;

CYSTEINE; METHANE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; OXYGEN; OXYGENASE; PLASMID DNA; PROPYLENE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; THREONINE; TOLUENE;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; METHYLOSINUS TRICHOSPORIUM; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

METHYLOSINUS; METHYLOSINUS TRICHOSPORIUM; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036841660     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.11.5265-5273.2002     Document Type: Article

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