Carbazole/dioxin-degrading car gene cluster is located on the chromosome of Pseudomonas stutzeri strain OM1 in a form different from the simple transposition of Tn4676

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1255-1261

  Shintani, Masaki ^a   Nojiri, Hideaki ^a   Yoshida, Takako ^a   Habe, Hiroshi ^a   Omori, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

car operon; Insertion sequence; Plasmid; Transposon

Indexed keywords

CARBAZOLE; CARBAZOLE DERIVATIVE; DIOXIN; OXYGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBAZOLES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DIOXINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OXYGENASES; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0042355524     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025079027730     Document Type: Article

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