Diversity of Nitrile Hydratase and Amidase Enzyme Genes in Rhodococcus erythropolis Recovered from Geographically Distinct Habitats

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5754-5766

  Brandão, Pedro F B ^a   Clapp, Justin P ^a   Bull, Alan T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; ENZYMES; GENES; SCREENING;

MOLECULAR SCREENING;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMIDASE; NITRILE HYDRATASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BETA CHAIN; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRUCTURAL GENE;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDRO-LYASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RHODOCOCCUS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0142040932     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.5754-5766.2003     Document Type: Article

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