Novel organization of catechol meta-pathway genes in Sphingomonas sp. HV3 pSKY4 plasmid

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 403-408

  Yrjälä, Kim ^a   Paulin, Lars ^b   Romantschuk, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aromatic catabolism; Catabolic plasmid; cmpFEXC; Meta pathway; Sphingomonas

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATECHOLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEINS; PSEUDOMONAS;

CYCLOCLASTICUS OLIGOTROPHUS; OLIGOTROPHUS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.;

EID: 0342872072     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00360-1     Document Type: Article

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