Construction and use of an ipb DNA module to generate Pseudomonas strains with constitutive trichloroethene and isopropylbenzene oxidation activity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2454-2462

  Berendes, Frank ^a,b   Sabarth, Nicolas ^a   Averhoff, Beate ^a   Gottschalk, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUMENE; DNA; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; ORGANIC SOLVENT; OXYGENASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PSEUDOMONAS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT; TRANSLATION INITIATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

EID: 0031842743     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2454-2462.1998     Document Type: Article

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