The sulfonated osmolyte N-methyltaurine is dissimilated by Alcaligenes faecalis and by Paracoccus versutus with release of methylamine

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1179-1186

  Weinitschke, Sonja ^a   Denger, Karin ^a   Smits, Theo H M ^a   Hollemeyer, Klaus ^b   Cook, Alasdair M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; CARBON; METHYLAMINE; NITROGEN; OSMOLITE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SULFATE; SULFITE; TAURINE DERIVATIVE;

AEROBIC BACTERIA; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS PANTOTROPHUS; PARACOCCUS VERSUTUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; SULFONATION;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; DNA, BACTERIAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLAMINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-NH GROUP DONORS; PARACOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; SULFITE DEHYDROGENASE; TAURINE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PARACOCCUS PANTOTROPHUS; PARACOCCUS VERSUTUS;

EID: 33645539868     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28622-0     Document Type: Article

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