Dynamics of multigene expression during catabolic adaptation of Ralstonia eutropha JMP134 (pJP4) to the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 396-406

  Leveau, Johan H J ^a,b   König, Franziska ^a   Füchslin, Hanspeter ^a   Werlen, Christoph ^a   Van der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; HERBICIDE; MESSENGER RNA; OXYGENASE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STEADY STATE; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

RALSTONIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0032997949     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01483.x     Document Type: Article

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