Identification of a methylase required for 2-methylhopanoid production and implications for the interpretation of sedimentary hopanes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 8537-8542

  Welander, Paula V ^a   Coleman, Maureen L ^a   Sessions, Alex L ^b   Summons, Roger E ^a   Newman, Dianne K ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Cyanobacteria; Hopanoids; Phylogeny; Radical SAM

Indexed keywords

2 METHYLHOPANOID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HOPANOID; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN HPNP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; TRITERPENES;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYANOBACTERIA; METHYLOBACTERIUM;

EID: 77952728544     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912949107     Document Type: Article

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