Mutation of glutamic acid 103 of toluene o-xylene monooxygenase as a means to control the catabolic efficiency of a recombinant upper pathway for degradation of methylated aromatic compounds

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 4744-4750

  Cafaro, Valeria ^b   Notomista, Eugenio ^b   Capasso, Paola ^b   Di Donato, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; DEGRADATION; ENZYMES; ISOMERS; METABOLISM;

CATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; GLUTAMIC ACIDS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PHENOL HYDROXYLASE (PH);

MUTAGENESIS;

3,4 DIMETHYLCATECHOL; CATECHOL DERIVATIVE; META CRESOL; ORTHO XYLENE; OXYGENASE; PHENOL HYDROXYLASE; TOLUENE; TOLUENE ORTHO XYLENE MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CATABOLISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; KINETICS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; OXYGENASES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TOLUENE; XYLENES;

PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 23744453849     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.8.4744-4750.2005     Document Type: Article

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