Cloning of Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases from Comamonas, Xanthobacter and Rhodococcus using polymerase chain reaction with highly degenerate primers

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 174-182

  Van Beilen, Jan B ^a   Mourlane, Frédéric ^a   Seeger, Markus A ^a   Kovac, Jasminka ^a   Li, Zhi ^a   Smits, Theo H M ^a,b   Fritsche, Urban ^a   Witholt, Bernard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMAMONAS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROCARBONS, ALICYCLIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGENASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; XANTHOBACTER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COMAMONAS; COMAMONAS SP.; COMAMONAS SP. NCIMB 9872; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; RHODOCOCCUS; VECTORS; XANTHOBACTER;

EID: 0037345547     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00401.x     Document Type: Article

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