Searching for nitrile hydratase using the Consensus-Degenerate Hybrid Oligonucleotide Primers strategy

Journal of Basic Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 203-214

  Lopes Lourenço, Pedro Miguel ^a   Almeida, Tânia ^a   Mendonça, Diogo ^a   Simões, Fernanda ^a   Novo, Carlos ^a  

^a INETI   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HYDROLYASE; NITRILE HYDRATASE; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; COMAMONADACEAE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

COMAMONADACEAE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDRO-LYASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM SP.; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; VARIOVORAX;

EID: 4544298110     PISSN: 0233111X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jobm.200310340     Document Type: Article

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