Genome Shuffling Improves Degradation of the Anthropogenic Pesticide Pentachlorophenol by Sphingobium chlorophenolicum ATCC 39723

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2391-2397

  Dai, MingHua ^a   Copley, Shelley D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PESTICIDES; SOILS;

GROWTH RATE; WILD-TYPE STRAINS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

PENTACHLOROPHENOL;

BIOMINERALIZATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEGRADATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GENOME SHUFFLING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SOIL POLLUTION; SPHINGOBIUM CHLOROPHENOLICUM ATCC 39723; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA SHUFFLING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; PESTICIDES; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SPHINGOMONADACEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SPHINGOBIUM; SPHINGOBIUM CHLOROPHENOLICUM;

EID: 3543063259     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2391-2397.2004     Document Type: Article

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