The surface-associated and secreted MopE protein of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) responds to changes in the concentration of copper in the growth medium

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2386-2388

  Karlsen, Odd A ^a   Berven, Frode S ^a   Stafford, Graham P ^b,c   Larsen, Øivind ^a   Murrell, J Colin ^b   Jensen, Harald B ^a   Fjellbirkeland, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COPPER; GROWTH KINETICS; IONS;

COPPER IONS;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPPER ION; PROTEIN MOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COPPER; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CULTURE MEDIUM; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL WALL; COPPER; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOCOCCUS; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037394937     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.2386-2388.2003     Document Type: Article

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