PnrA, a new nitroreductase-family enzyme in the TNT-degrading strain Pseudomonas putida JLR11

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1211-1219

  Caballero, Antonio ^a   Lázaro, Juan J ^a   Ramos, Juan L ^a   Esteve Núñez, Abraham ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITROREDUCTASE; TRINITROTOLUENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 20444364023     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00801.x     Document Type: Article

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