Identification of a unique radical S-Adenosylmethionine methylase likely involved in methanopterin biosynthesis in Methanocaldococcus jannaschii

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 3315-3323

  Allen, Kylie D ^a   Xu, Huimin ^a   White, Robert H ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; METHANOPTERIN; METHIONINE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; ALANINE; CYSTEINE; PTERIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; COENZYME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOGENESIS; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALANINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PTERINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84906066526     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01903-14     Document Type: Article

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