The Sphingomonas plasmid pCAR3 is involved in complete mineralization of carbazole

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2007-2020

  Shintani, Masaki ^a   Urata, Masaaki ^a   Inoue, Kengo ^a   Eto, Kaori ^a   Habe, Hiroshi ^a   Omori, Toshio ^a,b   Yamane, Hisakazu ^a   Nojiri, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRANILIC ACID; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BENZOIC ACID; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; CARBAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CATECHOL DERIVATIVE; DIBENZOFURAN; DIBENZOTHIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; FERREDOXIN; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENONE DERIVATIVE; GENE PRODUCT; GENTISIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NAPHTHALENE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHTHALIC ACID; PROTOCATECHUIC ACID; SALICYLIC ACID; SULFONE DERIVATIVE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANDA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODEGRADATION; CAR I GENE; CAR II GENE; CARAAI GENE; CARAAII GENE; CARACI GENE; CARACII GENE; CARDFE GENE; CATBCAD GENE; CATIJF GENE; FDRI GENE; FDRII GENE; FDXI GENE; GENE CLUSTER; LIGAB GENE; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPHA GENE; PARA GENE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPA GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPHINGOMONAS; TRAD GENE; TRAI GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBAZOLES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SPHINGOMONAS;

NOVOSPHINGOBIUM AROMATICIVORANS; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.;

EID: 33947380626     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01486-06     Document Type: Article

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