Transcriptional organization of genes for protocatechuate and quinate degradation from Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1025-1034

  Dal, Süreyya ^a   Trautwein, Gaby ^a,b   Gerischer, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b ratiopharm GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHROMOSOMES; DATA REDUCTION; DEGRADATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ENZYMES; STRAIN; SUBSTRATES;

CLUSTER ENCODING; NORTHERN BLOT ANALYSIS; PROMOTER ACTIVITY; TRANSCRIPTIONS;

GENES;

PROTOCATECHUIC ACID; QUININE SULFATE; SHIKIMIC ACID;

BACTERIUM;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; STRUCTURAL GENE;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROXYBENZOIC ACIDS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUINIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 13544251411     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.2.1025-1034.2005     Document Type: Article

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