Construction and characterization of two recombinant bacteria that grow on ortho- and para-substituted chlorobiphenyls

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2163-2169

  Hrywna, Yarek ^a,b,c   Tsoi, Tamara V ^a   Maltseva, Olga V ^a   Quensen III, John F ^a   Tiedje, James M ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Marine Biological Labs ^*  (United States)

^c ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HALOBENZOATE 1,2 DIOXYGENASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; MINERALIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REACTION ANALYSIS; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; STOICHIOMETRY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARTHROBACTER; ARTHROBACTER GLOBIFORMIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032924503     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.5.2163-2169.1999     Document Type: Article

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