Carbazole-degradative IncP-7 plasmid pCAR1.2 is structurally unstable in Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1, which accumulates catechol, the intermediate of the carbazole degradation pathway

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3920-3929

  Takahashi, Yurika ^a   Shintani, Masaki ^a   Li, Li ^a,b   Yamane, Hisakazu ^a   Nojiri, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATABOLIC PATHWAY; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOMIC INFORMATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INCP-7 PLASMID; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PCR ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REGULATORY GENES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SOLE CARBON SOURCE; TOXIC INTERMEDIATES; WILD-TYPE STRAIN;

DEGRADATION; GENES; TRANSCRIPTION;

STRAIN;

CARBAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CARBON; CATECHOL; SUCCINIC ACID;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GROWTH RATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION;

ANTR GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAT GENE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CARBAZOLES; CATECHOLS; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUCCINIC ACID;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 67149128137     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02373-08     Document Type: Article

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