Isolation and characterization of Tn5-induced mutants deficient in carbazole catabolism

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-70

  Kimura, Toshiaki ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Kodama, Tohru ^a   Omori, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbazole degradation; Pseudomonas sp.; ketoadipate pathway

Indexed keywords

CARBAZOLE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0029671089     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00430-0     Document Type: Article

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