Plasmid pCAR3 contains multiple gene sets involved in the conversion of carbazole to anthranilate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3198-3205

  Urata, Masaaki ^a   Uchimura, Hiromasa ^a   Noguchi, Haruko ^a   Sakaguchi, Tomoya ^b   Takemura, Tetsuo ^b   Eto, Kaori ^a   Habe, Hiroshi ^a   Omori, Toshio ^a,c   Yamane, Hisakazu ^a   Nojiri, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; CATALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SUBSTRATES;

ANTHRANILATE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBAZOLE; GENE CLUSTERS;

ENZYME KINETICS;

ANTHRANILIC ACID; CARBAZOLE DERIVATIVE; FERREDOXIN; GENE PRODUCT; HYDROLASE; PUTIDAREDOXIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE;

BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DEGRADATION; GENE;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CAR1 GENE; CATALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPHINGOMONAS;

ANTHRANILIC ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBAZOLES; DIOXYGENASES; FERREDOXINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OXYGENASES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPHINGOMONAS;

PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONAS RESINOVORANS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.;

EID: 33646562479     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.5.3198-3205.2006     Document Type: Article

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