Adaptation of Comamonas testosteroni TA441 to utilization of phenol by spontaneous mutation of the gene for a trans-acting factor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1132-1140

  Arai, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Akahira, Saiko ^a   Ohishi, Tohru ^a   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; GENE PRODUCT; OXYGENASE; PHENOL;

ARTICLE; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATECHOL 2,3-DIOXYGENASE; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; DIOXYGENASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OXYGENASES; PHENOL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032825377     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01554.x     Document Type: Article

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