Characterization of two alkane hydroxylase genes from the marine hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 264-273

  Van Beilen, Jan B ^a   Marín, Mercedes M ^b   Smits, Theo H M ^a,c   Röthlisberger, Martina ^a   Franchini, Alessandro G ^a   Witholt, Bernard ^a   Rojo, Fernando ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; ALKANE 1 MONOOXYGENASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HALOMONADACEAE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WATER POLLUTION;

ALKANE 1-MONOOXYGENASE; ALKANES; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HALOMONADACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ALCANIVORAX BORKUMENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOMONADACEAE; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; UNCULTURED GAMMA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 1342289955     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00567.x     Document Type: Article

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