A reversed genetic approach reveals the coenzyme specificity and other catalytic properties of three enzymes putatively involved in anaerobic oxidation of methane with sulfate

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3431-3442

  Kojima, Hisaya ^a   Moll, Johanna ^b   Kahnt, Jörg ^b   Fukui, Manabu ^a   Shima, Seigo ^a,b,c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COENZYME; FORMYLMETHANOFURAN-TETRAHYDROMETHANOPTERIN FORMYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROLASE; METHANE; METHENYLTETRAHYDROMETHANOPTERIN CYCLOHYDROLASE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROMETHANOPTERIN DEHYDROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SULFATE; TRANSFERASE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARCHAEON; BIOCATALYSIS; COENZYME; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

AMINOHYDROLASES; ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; BIOCATALYSIS; COENZYMES; HYDROXYMETHYL AND FORMYL TRANSFERASES; METAGENOME; METHANE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-NH GROUP DONORS; SULFATES;

EID: 84912011235     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12475     Document Type: Article

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