The bphDEF meta-cleavage pathway genes involved in biphenyl/polychlorinated biphenyl degradation are located on a linear plasmid and separated from the initial bphACB genes in Rhodococcus sp. strain RHA1

Gene

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 141-149

  Masai, Eiji ^a   Sugiyama, Katsumi ^a   Iwashita, Naoko ^a   Shimizu, Satoru ^a   Hauschild, James E ^b   Hatta, Takashi ^c   Kimbara, Kazuhide ^a,d,e   Yano, Keiji ^a,d   Fukuda, Masao ^a,d  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e RAILWAY TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 hydroxy 6 oxo 6 phenylhexa 2,4 dienoate hydrolase; 2 hydroxypenta 2,4 dienoate hydratase; 4 hydroxy 2 oxovalerate aldolase; Biodegradation; Gram positive bacterium; Homoprotocatechuic acid

Indexed keywords

ETHYLBENZENE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; HYDROLASE; HYDROLYASE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIODEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BENZENE DERIVATIVES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIOXYGENASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDRO-LYASES; HYDROLASES; OXO-ACID-LYASES; OXYGENASES; PLASMIDS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 0031039131     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00748-2     Document Type: Article

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