Polyphosphate kinase from activated sludge performing enhanced biological phosphorus removal

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 4971-4978

  McMahon, Katherine D ^a   Dojka, Michael A ^a   Pace, Norman R ^a   Jenkins, David ^a   Keasling, Jay D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; ENZYMES; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; PHOSPHORUS; RNA;

HYBRIDIZATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DNA; PHOSPHORUS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BATCH REACTOR; BIOMASS; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EFFLUENT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (PHOSPHATE GROUP ACCEPTOR); PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOCYCLUS; RHODOCYCLUS TENUIS;

EID: 0036795835     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.10.4971-4978.2002     Document Type: Article

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