Identification and characterization of a bile acid 7α-dehydroxylation operon in Clostridium sp. strain TO-931, a highly active 7α-dehydroxylating strain isolated from human feces

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1107-1113

  Wells, James E ^a   Hylemon, Phillip B ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE ACID; DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

3-ALPHA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE (B-SPECIFIC); 3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; COENZYME A LIGASES; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDRO-LYASES; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; INTESTINES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THIOLESTER HYDROLASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SP.; CLOSTRIDIUM SP. TO-931; EUBACTERIUM SP.; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034010274     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.3.1107-1113.2000     Document Type: Article

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