The role of the Sphingomonas species UG30 pentachlorophenol-4-monooxygenase in p-nitrophenol degradation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 247-253

  Leung, Kam Tin ^a   Campbell, Steve ^a   Gan, Yingdong ^b   White, David C ^b   Lee, Hung ^a   Trevors, Jack T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

4 Nitrocatechol; Biodegradation; p Nitrophenol; pcpB; Pentachlorophenol; Sphingomonas species

Indexed keywords

4 NITROPHENOL; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DRUG DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPHINGOMONAS;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CATECHOLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROPHENOLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0033063636     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00083-X     Document Type: Article

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