Characterization of a protocatechuate catabolic gene cluster from Rhodococcus opacus 1CP: Evidence for a merged enzyme with 4- carboxymuconolactone-decarboxylating and 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone- hydrolyzing activity

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1072-1081

  Eulberg, Dirk ^a   Lakner, Silvia ^a   Golovleva, Ludmila A ^b   Schlömann, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; PROTOCATECHUIC ACID;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERYTHROPOLIS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS OPACUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031909725     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.5.1072-1081.1998     Document Type: Article

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