Biochemical Properties of Ectoine Hydroxylases from Extremophiles and Their Wider Taxonomic Distribution among Microorganisms

• Nils Widderich ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nils Widderich, Astrid Höppner

  Affiliations Laboratory for Microbiology, Department of Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Emeritus Group R.K. Thauer, Marburg, Germany

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• Astrid Höppner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nils Widderich, Astrid Höppner

  Affiliation X-Ray Facility and Crystal Farm, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Marco Pittelkow,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Microbiology, Department of Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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• Johann Heider,

  Affiliations Laboratory for Microbiology, Department of Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany, LOEWE-Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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• Sander H. J. Smits ,

  * E-mail: sander.smits@hhu.de (SHGS); bremer@biologie.uni-marburg.de (EB)

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Erhard Bremer

  * E-mail: sander.smits@hhu.de (SHGS); bremer@biologie.uni-marburg.de (EB)

  Affiliations Laboratory for Microbiology, Department of Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany, LOEWE-Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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