Expression of the phosphonoalanine-degradative gene cluster from Variovorax sp. Pal2 is induced by growth on phosphonoalanine and phosphonopyruvate

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 100-106

  Kulakova, Anna N ^a   Kulakov, Leonid A ^a   Villarreal Chiu, Juan F ^a   Gilbert, Jack A ^b   McGrath, John W ^a   Quinn, John P ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon phosphorus hydrolase; LysR; Phosphonate; Phosphonoalanine metabolism; Variovorax

Indexed keywords

ALANINE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHONOALANINE; PHOSPHONOPYRUVATE; PHOSPHONOPYRUVATE HYDROLASE; PROTEIN LYSR; PYRUVIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME METABOLISM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VARIOVORAX;

ALANINE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; COMAMONADACEAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PYRUVATES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; VARIOVORAX; VARIOVORAX SP. PAL2;

EID: 59349117794     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01477.x     Document Type: Article

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