Freshwater selenium-methylating bacterial thiopurine methyltransferases: Diversity and molecular phylogeny

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 153-164

  Favre Bonte S ^a   Ranjard, L ^a,b   Colinon, C ^a   Prigent Combaret, C ^a   Nazaret, S ^a   Cournoyer, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; SELENIUM; THIOPURINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; UBIG PROTEIN, E COLI;

AEROMONAS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BORDETELLA; CHEMISTRY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AEROMONAS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BORDETELLA; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SELENIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS VERONII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BORDETELLA; EUKARYOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 12744255037     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00670.x     Document Type: Article

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