The stachydrine catabolism region in Sinorhizobium meliloti encodes a multi-enzyme complex similar to the xenobiotic degrading systems in other bacteria

Gene

Volumn 244, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 151-161

  Burnet, Michael W ^a   Goldmann, Arlette ^a   Message, Brigitte ^a   Drong, Roger ^b   El Amrani, Abdelhak ^a   Loreau, O ^c   Slightom, Jerry ^b   Tepfer, David ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Carnitine; Nodulation; Nutritional mediators; Oxygenase; Reductase; Rieske cluster

Indexed keywords

BETAINE DERIVATIVE; CARNITINE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; PROLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DEMETHYLATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CARNITINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGENASES; PLANT ROOTS; PLASMIDS; PROLINE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; XENOBIOTICS;

AGROBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0033962975     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00554-5     Document Type: Article

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