Carbazole metabolism by pseudomonads

Pseudomonas

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 107-145

  Nojiri, Hideaki ^a   Omori, Toshio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6097-7_5     Document Type: Chapter

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