Cysteine biosynthesis pathway in the archaeon Methanosarcina barkeri encoded by acquired bacterial genes?

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 143-145

  Kitabatake, Makoto ^a,b   So, Man Wah ^a   Tumbula, Debra L ^a   Söll, Dieter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; METHANOBACTERIUM THERMOAUTOTROPHICUM; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROCOCCUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMOPLASMA ACIDOPHILUM;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOBACTERIUM THERMOAUTOTROPHICUM; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOCOCCUS; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOSARCINA; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; METHANOTHERMOBACTER THERMAUTOTROPHICUS; PYROCOCCUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMOPLASMA ACIDOPHILUM;

EID: 0342514827     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.1.143-145.2000     Document Type: Article

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