Evidence for acquisition in nature of a chromosomal 2,4- dichlorophenoxyacetic acid/α-ketoglutarate dioxygenase gene by different Burkholderia spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2457-2463

  Matheson, V Grace ^a,b   Forney, Larry J ^b   Suwa, Yuichi ^b,c   Nakatsu, Cindy H ^b,d   Sexstone, Alan J ^a   Holben, William E ^b,e  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATL INST FOR RSRC AND ENVIRON   (Japan)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; 2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; OXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; DECHLORINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030013485     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.7.2457-2463.1996     Document Type: Article

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