Bacterial degradation of natural rubber: A privilege of actinomycetes?

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-188

  Jendrossek, Dieter ^a   Tomasi, Gianpaolo ^a   Kroppenstedt, Reiner M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actinomycetes; Natural rubber; Polyisoprene oxygenase

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; RUBBER; SUCCINIC ACID;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; MICROMONOSPORA; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOMYCETALES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYME INDUCTION; EUROPE; FAR EAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; PHENOTYPE; RUBBER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUCCINATES; SUCCINIC ACID;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOMADURA; ACTINOPLANES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DACTYLOSPORANGIUM; MICROMONOSPORA; NEGIBACTERIA; NOCARDIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0030914602     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00072-4     Document Type: Article

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