Identification and catalytic residues of the arsenite methyltransferase from a sulfate-reducing bacterium, Clostridium sp. BXM

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 362, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Pei Pei ^a   Bao, Peng ^a   Sun, Guo Xin ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Conserved cysteine; Methylation; Methyltransferase; Sulfate reducing bacterium

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE METHYLTRANSFERASE; CYSTEINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARSENIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SP BXM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CSARSM GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ARSENIC; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84948947428     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnu003     Document Type: Article

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