Mechanisms of thermal adaptatation revealed from genomes of the anatarctic Archaea Methanogenium frigidum and Methanacoccoides burtonii

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1580-1588

  Saunders, Neil F W ^a   Thomas, Torsten ^a,i   Curmi, Paul M G ^a,j   Mattick, John S ^b   Kuczek, Elizabeth ^b   Slade, Rob ^b   Davis, John ^b   Franzmann, Peter D ^c   Boone, David ^d   Rusterholtz, Karl ^d   Feldman, Robert ^e   Gates, Chris ^e   Bench, Shellie ^e   Sowers, Kevin ^f   Kadner, Kristen ^g   Aerts, Andrea ^g   Dehal, Paramvir ^g   Detter, Chris ^g   Glavina, Tijana ^g   Lucas, Susan ^g   Richardson, Paul ^g   Larimer, Frank ^h   Hauser, Loren ^h   Land, Miriam ^h   Cavicchioli, Ricardo ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Amersham Biosciences   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ Nucleics Pty Ltd   (United States)

^j ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; GLUTAMINE; GUANINE; LEUCINE; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; THREONINE; TRANSFER RNA; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COLD SHOCK PROTEIN CSPB, BACTERIA; COLD-SHOCK PROTEIN CSPB, BACTERIA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOCOCCOIDES BURTONII; METHANOCOCCUS; METHANOGENIUM FRIGIDUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; METHANOMICROBIALES; METHANOSARCINA; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOCOCCOIDES BURTONII; METHANOCOCCUS; METHANOGENIUM FRIGIDUM; PROKARYOTA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; COLD; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; METHANOMICROBIACEAE; METHANOSARCINACEAE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0038824870     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1180903     Document Type: Review

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