Construction and screening of metagenomic libraries derived from enrichment cultures: Generation of a gene bank for genes conferring alcohol oxidoreductase activity on Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1408-1416

  Knietsch, Anja ^a   Waschkowitz, Tanja ^a   Bowien, Susanne ^a   Henne, Anke ^a   Daniel, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; GENES; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SUBSTRATES;

METAGENOMIC LIBRARIES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL KINASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYOL; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

BACTERIUM; GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLONE; DNA EXTRACTION; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; REDUCTION; SAMPLE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037335924     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.3.1408-1416.2003     Document Type: Article

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