Cloning, sequencing, and expression of isopropylbenzene degradation genes from Pseudomonas sp. strain JR1: Identification of isopropylbenzene dioxygenase that mediates trichloroethene oxidation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3967-3977

  Pflugmacher, Ulrich ^a   Averhoff, Beate ^a   Gottschalk, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUMENE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DEGRADATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

EID: 0029804961     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.11.3967-3977.1996     Document Type: Article

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