Genomic insights into methanotrophy: The complete genome sequence of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Ward, Naomi ^a,b   Larsen, Øivind ^c   Sakwa, James ^a   Bruseth, Live ^c   Khouri, Hoda ^a   Durkin, A Scott ^a   Dimitrov, George ^a   Jiang, Lingxia ^a   Scanlan, David ^a   Kang, Katherine H ^a   Lewis, Matt ^a   Nelson, Karen E ^a   Methé, Barbara ^a   Wu, Martin ^a   Heidelberg, John F ^a   Paulsen, Ian T ^a,d   Fouts, Derrick ^a   Ravel, Jacques ^a   Tettelin, Hervé ^a   Ren, Qinghu ^a   Read, Tim ^a   DeBoy, Robert T ^a   Seshadri, Rekha ^a   Salzberg, Steven L ^a,g   Jensen, Harald B ^c   Birkeland, Nils Kåre ^c   Nelson, William C ^a   Dodson, Robert J ^a   Grindhaug, Svenn H ^c   Holt, Ingeborg ^e   Eidhammer, Ingvar ^c   Jonasen, Inge ^c   Vanaken, Susan ^a   Utterback, Terry ^a   Feldblyum, Tamara V ^a   Fraser, Claire M ^a,f   Lillehaug, Johan R ^c   Eisen, Jonathan A ^a,d   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Center of Marine Biotechnology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COPPER; FORMALDEHYDE; FORMIC ACID; GLYCOGEN; HYDROGEN; METHANE; METHANOL; SERINE; SUGAR; SULFUR; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ECOLOGY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY RESOURCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GLUCONEOGENESIS; LIFESTYLE; METABOLISM; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA SYNTHESIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

METHYLOBACTERIUM; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; METHYLOCOCCUS; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; METHANE; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 8844264574     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020303     Document Type: Article

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