Cloning and characterization of styrene catabolism genes from Pseudomonas fluorescens ST

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 121-127

  Marconi, Andrea M ^a   Beltrametti, Fabrizio ^b   Bestetti, Giuseppina ^b   Solinas, Francesca ^a   Ruzzi, Maurizio ^d   Galli, Enrica ^b   Zennaro, Elisabetta ^a,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; GLUCOSE; ISOMERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHENETHYL ALCOHOL; STYRENE; STYRENE OXIDE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATABOLISM; COSMID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RECOMBINANT GENE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0030021803     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.1.121-127.1996     Document Type: Article

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