Prospecting for Novel Biocatalysts in a Soil Metagenome

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 6235-6242

  Voget, S ^a   Leggewie, C ^b   Uesbeck, A ^a   Raasch, C ^a   Jaeger, K E ^b   Streit, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROORGANISMS; RNA;

METAGENOMES;

CLONING;

AMIDASE; PECTATE LYASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ARTICLE; BIOCATALYST; CLONE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOBIUM; RNA SEQUENCE; SOIL MICROFLORA; STEREOCHEMISTRY; XANTHOMONAS;

BACTERIA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COSMIDS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; LIPASE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

AGROBACTERIUM; AMIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; JANTHINOBACTERIUM; MICROBULBIFER; PSEUDOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 0142104341     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.6235-6242.2003     Document Type: Article

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