Cloning, expression, and site-directed mutagenesis of the propene monooxygenase genes from Mycobacterium sp. strain M156

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1909-1914

  Chan Kwo Chion, Chan K ^a,b   Askew, Sarah E ^a,c   Leak, David J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Imperial College Hammersmith Campus   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CATALYSIS; CLONING; ENZYMES; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; OXIDATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EPOXIDATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIAL ENZYME; SITE-SELECTED MUTAGENESIS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; PROPYLENE; STYRENE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EPOXIDATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GORDONIA RUBRIPERTINCTUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; OXIDATION; PLASMID; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

ALKENES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYCOBACTERIUM; OXYGENASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 17444403592     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.4.1909-1914.2005     Document Type: Article

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