Phenol degradation in the strictly anaerobic iron-reducing bacterium Geobacter metallireducens GS-15

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3912-3919

  Schleinitz, Kathleen M ^a   Schmeling, Sirko ^b   Jehmlich, Nico ^a   Von Bergen, Martin ^a   Harms, Hauke ^a   Kleinsteuber, Sabine ^a   Vogt, Carsten ^a   Fuchs, Georg ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE CLUSTERS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOBACTER; IN-CELL; IRON REDUCING BACTERIA; ISOTOPE EXCHANGE REACTIONS; PHENOL DEGRADATION; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATIONS; PROTEOME; SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIODEGRADATION; DEGRADATION; ENZYMES; GENES; METABOLISM; PHENOLS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

TRANSCRIPTION;

CARBOXYLASE; PHENOL; PHENYLPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; PHENYLPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; PROTEOME; SYNTHETASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIODEGRADATION; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIUM; METABOLISM; NITRATE; PHENOL;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN PROCESSING; THAUERA AROMATICA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZOATES; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOBACTER; IRON; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOL; SYNTENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS GS-15; THAUERA; THAUERA AROMATICA;

EID: 67149118087     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01525-08     Document Type: Article

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