Engineering of quasi-natural Pseudomonas putida strains toluene metabolism through an ortho-cleavage degradation pathway

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 748-751

  Panke, Sven ^a,b   Sánchez Romero, Juan M ^a   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BENZOIC ACID; CATECHOL; TOLUENE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REGULATOR GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0345310070     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.748-751.1998     Document Type: Article

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