Laboratory Evolution of Toluene Dioxygenase to Accept 4-Picoline as a Substrate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 3882-3887

  Sakamoto, Takeshi ^a,b   Joern, John M ^a   Arisawa, Akira ^a,c   Arnold, Frances H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c MERCIAN CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGENASE; PICOLINE DERIVATIVE; TOLUENE DIOXYGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGENASES; PICOLINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035464767     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.9.3882-3887.2001     Document Type: Article

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