Isolation and characterization of a Mycobacterium species capable of degrading three- and four-ring aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 549-552

  Churchill, Sharon A ^a   Harper, Jennifer P ^b   Churchill, Perry F ^b  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; ALKANE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CARBON; FLUORANTHENE; OXYGENASE; PHENANTHRENE; PYRENE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SP.; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS OLEOVORANS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032976489     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.549-552.1999     Document Type: Article

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