supported by a research grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC)to K.M.
Hyperthermus butylicus is a hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon that produces 1-butanol as an end product.A thermostable alcohol dehydrogenase(ADH)must be present in H.butylicus to act as the key enzyme responsible for thi...
Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2006AA02Z108);the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2009CB118906);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.30700131,30870512)
We report the characterization of a uracil-DNA glycosylase(UDG) from the hyperthermophilic archaea Pyrococcus furiosus(P, furiosus). P. furiosus UDG(PfUDG) has high sequence similarity to the families IV and V U...
supported in part by the Human Frontier Science Program;several research grants from Ministry of Education,Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan;the Japan New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization;the Japan Science and Technology Agency
Archaea,the third domain of life,are interesting organisms to study from the aspects of molecular and evolutionary biology.Archaeal cells have a unicellular ultrastructure without a nucleus,resembling bacterial cells,...