Studies on the isopropylbenzene 2,3-dioxygenase and the 3-isopropylcatechol 2,3-dioxygenase genes encoded by the linear plasmid of Rhodococcus erythropolis BD2

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3241-3251

  Kesseler, Maria ^a   Dabbs, Eric R ^b   Averhoff, Beate ^a   Gottschalk, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

2,3 dioxygenase; 3 isopropylcatechol; Isopropylbenzene 2,3 dioxygenase; Rhodococcus erythropolis; Trichloroethene co oxidation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CATECHOL 1,2 DIOXYGENASE; CUMENE; FERREDOXIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; PLASMID DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DATA BASE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERYTHROPOLIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS;

EID: 0029946484     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-11-3241     Document Type: Article

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