Expanding the alkane oxygenase toolbox: New enzymes and applications

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 308-314

  Van Beilen, Jan B ^a   Funhoff, Enrico G ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CATALYSIS; CHARACTERIZATION; CLONING; ENZYMES; GENES;

ALKANE OXYGENASE SEQUENCES; EVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERING; OXYGENASE; OXYGENATION;

PARAFFINS;

BUTANE; CYTOCHROME P450; METHANE; OXYGENASE; PROPANE;

ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIODEGRADATION; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CATALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 20444375861     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2005.04.005     Document Type: Review

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