Substrate specificity of regiospecific desaturation of aliphatic compounds by a mutant rhodococcus strain

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1064-1066

  Koike, Kenzo ^a   Takaiwa, Mikio ^a   Kimura, Yoshiharu ^a   Inoue, Shigeo ^a   Ito, Susumu ^a  

^a KAO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alkene; Alkenoic acid; Desaturation; Regiospecifi city; Rhodococcus

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; RHODOCOCCUS;

FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; RHODOCOCCUS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 0034183756     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.64.1064     Document Type: Article

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