Use of 4-nitrophenoxyacetic acid for detection and quantification of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)/α-ketoglutarate dioxygenase activity in 2,4-D-degrading microorganisms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1189-1191

  Sassanella, Timothy M ^a,b   Fukumori, Fumiyasu ^b,c,d   Bagdasarian, Michael ^a,b   Hausinger, Robert P ^a,b,e  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; 2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; 4 NITROPHENOL; 4 NITROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; OXYGENASE; PHENOXYACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ASSAY; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; NONHUMAN; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FELIS CATUS; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0031020494     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.3.1189-1191.1997     Document Type: Article

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