Article
Genetic and physiological characterization of the purine salvage pathway in the archaebacterium Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum Marburg.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jun 1990
Worrell V E, Nagle D P
Abstract excerpt
The enzymes involved in the purine interconversion pathway of wild-type and purine analog-resistant strains of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum Marburg were assayed by radiometric and spectrophotometric methods. Wild-type cells incorporated labeled adenine, guanine, and hypoxanthine, whereas mutant strains varied in their ability to incorporate these bases. Adenine, guanine, hypoxanthine, and xanthine were...
Topics
- Euryarchaeota
- Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase
- Mutation
- Pentosyltransferases
- Purines
