Engineering of a stable whole-cell biocatalyst capable of (S)-styrene oxide formation for continuous two-liquid-phase applications

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 5619-5623

  Panke, Sven ^a   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^b   Kaiser, Arnë ^a   Witholt, Bernard ^a   Wubbolts, Marcel G ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c DSM Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGENASE; STYRENE OXIDE; XYLENE;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0032728414     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.12.5619-5623.1999     Document Type: Article

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