Complete genome sequence of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum ΔH: Functional analysis and comparative genomics

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 7135-7155

  Smith, Douglas R ^a   Doucette Stamm, Lynn A ^a   Deloughery, Craig ^a   Lee, Hongmei ^a   Dubois, Joann ^a   Aldredge, Tyler ^a   Bashirzadeh, Romina ^a   Blakely, Derron ^a   Cook, Robin ^a   Gilbert, Katie ^a   Harrison, Dawn ^a   Hoang, Lieu ^a   Keagle, Pamela ^a   Lumm, Wendy ^a   Pothier, Bryan ^a   Qiu, Dayong ^a   Spadafora, Rob ^a   Vicaire, Rita ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Wierzbowski, Jamey ^a   Gibson, Rene ^a   Jiwani, Nilofer ^a   Caruso, Anthony ^a   Bush, David ^a   Safer, Hershel ^a   Patwell, Donivan ^a   Prabhakar, Shashi ^a   Mcdougall, Steve ^a   Shimer, George ^a   Goyal, Anil ^a   Pietrokovski, Shmuel ^b   Church, George M ^c   Daniels, Charles J ^d   Mao, Jen I ^a   Rice, Phil ^a   Nölling, Jörk ^a   Reeve, John N ^d   more..

^a GENOME THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; METHANOBACTERIUM THERMOAUTOTROPHICUM; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOCOCCUS; METHANOTHERMOBACTER THERMAUTOTROPHICUS;

EID: 15644383855     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.22.7135-7155.1997     Document Type: Article

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