The chlorocatechol-catabolic transposon Tn5707 of Alcaligenes eutrophus NH9, carrying a gene cluster highly homologous to that in the 1,2,4- trichlorobenzene-degrading bacterium Pseudomonas sp. strain P51, confers the ability to grow on 3-chlorobenzoate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 724-731

  Ogawa, Naoto ^a   Miyashita, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2,4 TRICHLOROBENZENE; 3 CHLOROBENZOIC ACID; CATECHOL DERIVATIVE; CHLOROCATECHOL; DNA FRAGMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS; TRANSPOSON; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ALCALIGENES; ALCALIGENES EUTROPHUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA EUTROPHA; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0033046674     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.724-731.1999     Document Type: Article

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