Web-type evolution of Rhodococcus gene clusters associated with utilization of naphthalene

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1754-1764

  Kulakov, Leonid A ^a   Chen, Shenchang ^a   Allen, Christopher C R ^a   Larkin, Michael J ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOMES; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; NAPHTHALENE;

CATALYTIC SUBUNITS; GENE CLUSTERS; HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION;

GENES;

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NAPHTHALENE;

BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; REGULATOR GENE; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NAPHTHALENES; OXYGENASES; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 17444397489     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.4.1754-1764.2005     Document Type: Article

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