Taxonomy and biotransformation activities of some deep-sea actinomycetes

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 269-277

  Colquhoun, Joy A ^a   Heald, Stephen C ^a   Li, Lina ^b   Tamaoka, Jin ^b   Kato, Chiaki ^b   Horikoshi, Koki ^b   Bull, Alan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actinomycetes; Deep sea; High pressure; Nitrile transformations; Pyrolysis mass spectrometry; Selective isolation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIETZIA; GENE SEQUENCING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PACIFIC OCEAN; RIBOSOMAL RNA; STRESS TOLERANCE; TAXONOMY;

ACTINOMYCETALES; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROMONOSPORA; MYCOLIC ACIDS; NITRILES; OCEANS AND SEAS; RHODOCOCCUS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIETZIA; MICROMONOSPORA; RHODOCOCCUS; STREPTOMYCES; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032143401     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050069     Document Type: Review

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