The function of cytoplasmic flavin reductases in the reduction of azo dyes by bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1429-1434

  Russ, Rainer ^a,b   Rau, Jörg ^a   Stolz, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYE; AZO REDUCTASE; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPHINGOMONAS;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; AZO COMPOUNDS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FMN REDUCTASE; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPHINGOMONAS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

AMARANTHUS CAUDATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.;

EID: 0034071030     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1429-1434.2000     Document Type: Article

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