Phosphoenolpyruvate phosphomutase activity in an L-phosphonoalanine- mineralizing strain of Burkholderia cepacia

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2291-2294

  Ternan, Nigel G ^a,b   McGrath, John W ^a   Quinn, John P ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 3 PHOSPHONOPROPIONIC ACID; CARBON; MUTASE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIODEGRADATION; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; ENZYME INDUCTION; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031746836     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.6.2291-2294.1998     Document Type: Article

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