Microbial degradation of polyhydroxyalkanoates

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 403-432

  Jendrossek, Dieter ^a   Handrick, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extracellular PHB depolymerase; Intracellular PHB depolymerase; Paucimonas lemoignei; Polyhydroxybutyrate

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; CARBOXYLESTERASE; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); POLYESTER; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID;

BIODEGRADATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYESTERS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

FUNGI; PAUCIMONAS LEMOIGNEI;

EID: 0036406855     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.160838     Document Type: Review

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