Genetics of the glutamate-mediated methylamine utilization pathway in the facultative methylotrophic beta-proteobacterium Methyloversatilis universalis FAM5

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 426-439

  Latypova, Ekaterina ^a   Yang, Song ^a   Wang, Yi Shun ^a   Wang, Tiansong ^a   Chavkin, Theodore A ^a   Hackett, Murray ^a   Schäfer, Hendrik ^b   Kalyuzhnaya, Marina G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERREDOXIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLMETHYLAMIDE SYNTHETASE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; METHYLAMINE; N METHYLGLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; N METHYLGLUTAMATE SYNTHETASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN GLTB2; SARCOSINE OXIDASE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GLTB2 GENE; GSIII GENE; METHYLOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; METHYLOVERSATILIS UNIVERSALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOXA GENE;

ALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; KINETICS; METHYLAMINES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS;

PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 74349122331     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06989.x     Document Type: Article

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