A Novel Tetrahydrofolate-Dependent O-Demethylase Gene Is Essential for Growth of Sphingomonas paucimobilis SYK-6 with Syringate

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2757-2765

  Masai, Eiji ^a   Sasaki, Miyuki ^a   Minakawa, Yasunori ^a   Abe, Tomokuni ^a   Sonoki, Tomonori ^b   Miyauchi, Keisuke ^a   Katayama, Yoshihiro ^b   Fukuda, Masao ^a  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 O METHYLGALLATE; 5 METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; AMINO ACID; AMINOMETHYLTRANSFERASE; CELL EXTRACT; FOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GALLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; METHYL GROUP; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; O DEMETHYLASE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN KINASE SYK; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH RETARDATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEALKYLATION; GALLIC ACID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OXIDOREDUCTASES, O-DEMETHYLATING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPHINGOMONAS; TETRAHYDROFOLATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS;

EID: 1942443240     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.9.2757-2765.2004     Document Type: Article

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