Reverse transcription-PCR analysis of the regulation of ethylbenzene dioxygenase gene expression in Pseudomonas fluorescens CA-4

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-176

  Corkery, David M ^a   Dobson, Alan D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ethylbenzene degradation; Pseudomonas fluorescens; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

BACTERIAL RNA; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; ETHYLBENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE DIOXYGENASE; OXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOREMEDIATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BENZENE DERIVATIVES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGENASES; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0032530010     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb13886.x     Document Type: Article

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