Diversity and three-dimensional structures of the alpha Mcr of the methanogenic archaea from the anoxic region of tucuruí lake, in Eastern Brazilian Amazonia

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 126-133

  Santana, Priscila Bessa ^a   Ghilardi, Rubens ^b   Alves, Claudio Nahum ^a   Silva, Jeronimo Lameira ^a   McCulloch, John Anthony ^a   Schneider, Maria Paula Cruz ^a   da Costa da Silva, Artur ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b ELETRONORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonian; Archaea; Diversity; Homology modeling; Mcr ; Methyl coenzyme M reductase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA METHYL COENZYME M REDUCTASE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; NUCLEOTIDE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA METHYL COENZYME M REDUCTASE GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAZIL; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAKE; METAGENOMICS; METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON; METHANOMICROBIALES; METHANOPYRUS KANDLERI; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEDIMENT; TAXONOMY;

METHANOMICROBIALES; METHANOPYRUS; METHANOSARCINALES;

EID: 84858195663     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572012005000004     Document Type: Article

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