Comparative genomics of the methionine metabolism in Gram-positive bacteria: A variety of regulatory systems

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3340-3353

  Rodionov, Dmitry A ^a,b   Vitreschak, Alexey G ^a   Mironov, Andrey A ^b,c   Gelfand, Mikhail S ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND SELECTION OF INDUSTRIAL MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL RNA; BETAINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; METHYL GROUP; METHYLTRANSFERASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIBOSE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; THIOL DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; VERTEBRATE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; STREPTOCOCCACEAE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BACILLALES; BACILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; FIRMICUTES; LACTOBACILLALES; OCEANOBACILLUS IHEYENSIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCACEAE; VERTEBRATA;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; METHIONINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; REGULON; RNA, BACTERIAL; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SODIUM-HYDROGEN ANTIPORTER; STREPTOCOCCACEAE;

EID: 3042639887     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh659     Document Type: Article

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