"Methanococcus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of anaerobic coccoid METHANOCOCCACEAE whose organisms are motile by means of polar tufts of flagella. These methanogens are found in salt marshes, marine and estuarine sediments, and the intestinal tract of animals.
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D017017
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B02.200.538.525.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Methanococcus" by people in Profiles.
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Trueman SF, Mandon EC, Gilmore R. A gating motif in the translocation channel sets the hydrophobicity threshold for signal sequence function. J Cell Biol. 2012 Dec 10; 199(6):907-18.
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Mandon EC, Trueman SF, Gilmore R. Translocation of proteins through the Sec61 and SecYEG channels. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2009 Aug; 21(4):501-7.
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Sandler SJ, Satin LH, Samra HS, Clark AJ. recA-like genes from three archaean species with putative protein products similar to Rad51 and Dmc1 proteins of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res. 1996 Jun 01; 24(11):2125-32.