Reduction of polynitroaromatic compounds: The bacterial nitroreductases

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 474-500

  Roldán, María Dolores ^a   Pérez Reinado, Eva ^a   Castillo, Francisco ^a   Moreno Vivián, Conrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Cancer therapy; Flavoproteins; Nitroaromatics; Nitroreductases; SoxRS MarRA regulatory systems

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; BACTERIAL ENZYME; NITROREDUCTASE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ISOENZYME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REDUCTION KINETICS; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRO COMPOUNDS; NITROREDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 42149138547     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00107.x     Document Type: Review

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