The expanding world of methylotrophic metabolism

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2009, Pages 477-499

  Chistoserdova, Ludmila ^a   Kalyuzhnaya, Marina G ^b   Lidstrom, Mary E ^a,b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemistry; Ecology; Genomics; Methylotrophy; Physiology

Indexed keywords

GLYOXYLIC ACID; ISOCITRATE LYASE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; METHANOL DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLAMINE; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGY; GENOMICS; METAGENOMICS; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; METHYLOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METHANOL;

EID: 70349538975     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.091208.073600     Document Type: Review

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