Core pathways operating during methylotrophy of Bacillus methanolicusMGA3 and induction of a bacillithiol-dependent detoxification pathway upon formaldehyde stress

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1089-1100

  Müller, Jonas E N ^a   Meyer, Fabian ^a   Litsanov, Boris ^a   Kiefer, Patrick ^a   Vorholt, Julia A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLITHIOL; CARBON 13; FORMALDEHYDE; MANNITOL; METHANOL; RIBULOSE PHOSPHATE; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; THIOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; CYSTEINE; GLUCOSAMINE; PENTOSE; RIBULOSE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS METHANOLICUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; METHYLOTROPH; METHYLOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BACILLUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CYSTEINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUCOSAMINE; MANNITOL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METHANOL; PENTOSES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84983098221     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13200     Document Type: Article

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