Discovery of a eugenol oxidase from Rhodococcus sp. strain RHA1

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2311-2321

  Jin, Jianfeng ^a   Mazon, Hortense ^b   Van Den Heuvel, Robert H H ^b   Janssen, Dick B ^a   Fraaije, Marco W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Covalent flavinylation; Eugenol; Flavin; Oxidase; Rhodococcus

Indexed keywords

4 ETHYLGUAIACOL; 5 INDANOL; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CONIFERYL ALCOHOL; EUGENOL OXIDASE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLYL ALCOHOL; VANILLYL ALCOHOL OXIDASE; VANILLYLAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; MACROMOLECULE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PENICILLIUM SIMPLICISSIMUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUGENOL; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHODOCOCCUS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM SIMPLICISSIMUM; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 34247398660     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.05767.x     Document Type: Article

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