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SUBMITTER: Wood GE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC152622 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wood Gwendolyn E GE Haydock Andrew K AK Leigh John A JA
Journal of bacteriology 20030401 8
Methanococcus maripaludis is a mesophilic species of Archaea capable of producing methane from two substrates: hydrogen plus carbon dioxide and formate. To study the latter, we identified the formate dehydrogenase genes of M. maripaludis and found that the genome contains two gene clusters important for formate utilization. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that the two formate dehydrogenase gene sets arose from duplication events within the methanococcal lineage. The first gene cluster encodes ho ...[more]