Transcriptional regulation of the ant operon, encoding two-component anthranilate 1,2-dioxygenase, on the carbazole-degradative plasmid pCAR1 of Pseudomonas resinovorans strain CA10

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 6815-6823

  Urata, Masaaki ^a   Miyakoshi, Masatoshi ^a   Kai, Satoshi ^a   Maeda, Kana ^a   Habe, Hiroshi ^a   Omori, Toshio ^a,b   Yamane, Hisakazu ^a   Nojiri, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRANILATE 1,2 DIOXYGENASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; LUCIFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANT GENE; ANTABC GENE; ARTICLE; CARAA GENE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PLASMID PCAR1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONAS RESINOVORANS; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANTHRANILIC ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBAZOLES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORMICIDAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONAS RESINOVORANS;

EID: 4944257147     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.20.6815-6823.2004     Document Type: Article

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