Identification and targeted disruption of the gene encoding the main 3-ketosteroid dehydrogenase in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2393-2402

  Brzostek, Anna ^a   Śliwiński, Tomasz ^b   Rumijowska Galewicz, Anna ^a   Korycka Machała, Małgorzata ^a   Dziadek, Jarosław ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHOLESTEROL; STEROID REDUCTASE; STEROL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; KETOSTEROIDS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; OXIDOREDUCTASES;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 22144480254     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27953-0     Document Type: Article

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