Genes involved in the copper-dependent regulation of soluble methane monooxygenase of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath): Cloning, sequencing and mutational analysis

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1785-1795

  Csáki, Róbert ^a,b   Bodrossy, Levente ^a,b,d   Klem, József ^a,b   Murrell, J Colin ^c   Kovács, Kornél L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; CHAPERONIN; COPPER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; METHANE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; METHANOL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MARKER GENE; METABOLISM; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

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

EID: 0038109024     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26061-0     Document Type: Review

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