Organisation of the tmb catabolic operons of Pseudomonas putida TMB and evolutionary relationship with the xyl operons of the TOL plasmid pWW0

Gene

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 189-193

  Favaro, Rebecca ^a   Bernasconi, Camilla ^a   Passini, Nadia ^a,b   Bertoni, Giovanni ^a,c   Bestetti, Giuseppina ^a   Galli, Enrica ^a   Dehò, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aromatic hydrocarbons; Chromosomal genes; Insertion sequences; Trimethylbenzene; Xylenes

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BACTERIAL DNA; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; PLASMID DNA; XYLENE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOLUENE; XYLENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0030571542     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00552-5     Document Type: Article

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