Physiological analysis of the expression of the styrene degradation gene cluster in Pseudomonas fluorescens ST

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1305-1310

  Santos, Pedro Miguel ^a   Blatny, Janet Martha ^b   Di Bartolo, Ilaria ^a   Valla, Svein ^c   Zennaro, Elisabetta ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; STYRENE; SUCCINIC ACID; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIODEGRADATION; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STYRENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0034033845     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1305-1310.2000     Document Type: Article

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