Biomolecular Engineering of Escherichia coli Organo-mercurial Lyase Gene and its Expression

Indian Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 117-120

  Murtaza, Imtiyaz ^a   Dutt, Amit ^b   Ali, Arif ^c  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Cloning expression; Escherichia coli; merB

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; ORGANOMERCURIAL LYASE; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND; PROTEIN MERB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL INCLUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VECTORS;

EID: 0142028093     PISSN: 09725849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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