rpoN, mmoR and mmoG, genes involved in regulating the expression of soluble methane monooxygenase in Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1771-1784

  Stafford, Graham P ^a,b   Scanlan, Julie ^a   McDonald, Ian R ^a   Murell, J Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; CHAPERONIN; COPPER; METHANE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; METHANOL; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PROTEIN MMOG; PROTEIN MMOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON METABOLISM; CELL MEMBRANE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MARKER GENE; METABOLISM; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; METHYLOSINUS TRICHOSPORIUM; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOSINUS TRICHOSPORIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TRICHOSPORIUM;

EID: 0038785935     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26060-0     Document Type: Review

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