Alkane hydroxylase homologues in Gram-positive strains

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 676-682

  Van Beilen, Jan B ^a   Smits, Theo H M ^b   Whyte, Lyle G ^c   Schorcht, Susanne ^d   Röthlisberger, Martina ^a   Plaggemeier, Thorsten ^e   Engesser, Karl Heinrich ^e   Witholt, Bernard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d GeneScan Analytics   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOBACTERIUM; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RHODOCOCCUS;

EID: 18744416524     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00355.x     Document Type: Article

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