Regulation of putative methyl-sulphide methyltransferases in Mithaeosarcina acetivorans C2A

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 227-238

  Bose, Arpita ^a,b   Kulkarni, Gargi ^a   Metcalf, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBON MONOXIDE; DIMETHYL SULFIDE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; METHANOL; METHYLAMINE; METHYLSULPHIDE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METHANOSARCINA; METHANOSARCINA ACETIVORANS C2A; MTSD GENE; MTSF GENE; MTSH GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; METHANOSARCINA; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

METHANOSARCINA ACETIVORANS;

EID: 70350150787     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06864.x     Document Type: Article

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