RP4::Mu3A-mediated in vivo cloning and transfer of a chlorobiphenyl catabolic pathway

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3283-3293

  Springael, Dirk ^a   Van Thor, Jasper ^b   Goorissen, Heleen ^b   Ryngaert, Annemie ^a   De Baere, Raymond ^c   Van Hauwe, Peter ^c   Commandeur, Laetitia C M ^b   Parsons, John R ^b   De Wachter, Rupert ^c   Mergeay, Max ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chlorobiphenyl catabolism; In vivo cloning and transfer; RP4::Mu3A; proteobacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BIPHENYL; CARBON; DNA FRAGMENT; HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID; RNA 16S; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA SEQUENCE; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA SP.; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; ESCHERICHIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 10544234195     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-11-3283     Document Type: Article

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