Cyanide hydrolysis in a cyanide-degrading bacterium, Pseudomonas stutzeri AK61, by cyanidase

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1677-1682

  Watanabe, Atsushi ^a   Yano, Kazuyoshi ^a   Ikebukuro, Kazunori ^a   Karube, Isao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanidase; Cyanide degradation; Hydrolysis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYANIDE; FORMIC ACID;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 0031748640     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-6-1677     Document Type: Article

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