Degradation of alkanes and highly chlorinated benzenes, and production of biosurfactants, by a psychrophilic Rhodococcus sp. and genetic characterization of its chlorobenzene dioxygenase

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2879-2890

  Rapp, Peter ^a   Gabriel Jürgens, Lotte H E ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2,4 TRICHLOROBENZENE; 3 CHLOROBENZOIC ACID; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; BIOSURFACTANT; CARBON; CHLORIDE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; DECANE; DECANOIC ACID; DIHYDRODIOL DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOLIPID; HEPTANE; OCTANOIC ACID; PRIMER DNA; PRISTANE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCCINIC ACID; TREHALOSE;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARBON SOURCE; CELL GROWTH; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHLORINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESTERIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRAIT; ISOMERISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RALSTONIA; RHODOCOCCUS; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTION; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPERNATANT; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA SP.; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS SP.; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0142074776     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26188-0     Document Type: Article

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