Biochemical characterization of trinitrotoluene transforming oxygen-insensitive nitroreductases from Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 158-167

  Kutty, Razia ^a   Bennett, George N ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flavoprotein; Oxygen insensitive nitroreductase; Trinitrotoluene biotransformation

Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROTOLUENE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DICOUMAROL; FLAVOPROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; HYDROXAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROFURAL; NITROFURANTOIN; NITROREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN NITA; PROTEIN NITB; QUERCETIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; TRINITROTOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; DICUMAROL; DINITROBENZENES; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NAD; NADP; NITRO COMPOUNDS; NITROFURANTOIN; NITROFURAZONE; NITROREDUCTASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALICYLAMIDES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 27744503862     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0036-x     Document Type: Article

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