New ways to break an old bond: The bacterial carbon-phosphorus hydrolases and their role in biogeochemical phosphorus cycling

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2392-2400

  Quinn, John P ^a   Kulakova, Anna N ^a   Cooley, Natalie A ^a   McGrath, John W ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HYDROLASE; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS;

BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIA; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HYDROLASES; PHOSPHONIC ACIDS; PHOSPHORUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34548379026     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01397.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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