Development of hybrid strains for the mineralization of chloroaromatics by patchwork assembly

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue , 1998, Pages 287-331

  Reineke, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlorocatechol; Clustering of genes; Conjugative gene transfer; Enzyme and effector specificity; Modified ortho pathway

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND;

DNA TRANSFER; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HYBRID; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; CATECHOLS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOLUENE; XYLENES;

EID: 0031756487     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.52.1.287     Document Type: Review

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