Metabolic pathway for poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) formation in Nocardia corallina: Inactivation of mutB by chromosomal integration of a kanamycin resistance gene

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 372-379

  Valentin, Henry E ^a   Dennis, Douglas ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYVALERIC ACID; ALKANOIC ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; DIGOXIGENIN; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; KANAMYCIN; METHYLMALONYL COENZYME A MUTASE; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); POLYESTER; SUCCINIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALERIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0030031181     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.2.372-379.1996     Document Type: Article

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