Uncovering the protocatechuate 2,3-cleavage pathway genes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6758-6768

  Kasai, Daisuke ^a   Fujinami, Toshihiro ^a   Abe, Tomokuni ^b   Mase, Kohei ^b   Katayama, Yoshihiro ^c   Fukuda, Masao ^a   Masai, Eiji ^a  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOYOTA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYMUCONATE 6 SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; 2 HYDROXYPENTA 2,4 DIENOATE; 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; 3 OXYGENASE; 4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID; 4 OXALOCROTONATE DECARBOXYLASE; 4 OXALOCROTONATE TAUTOMERASE; 5 CARBOXY 2 HYDROXYMUCONATE 6 SEMIALDEHYDE DECARBOXYLASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL EXTRACT; OXYGENASE; PROTOCATECHUATE 2,3; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PAENIBACILLUS; PRAA GENE; PRAB GENE; PRAC GENE; PRAD GENE; PRAE GENE; PRAF GENE; PRAG GENE; PRAH GENE; PRAI GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACILLACEAE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROXYBENZOIC ACIDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPERON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PAENIBACILLUS MACERANS; PAENIBACILLUS SP.;

EID: 70350445534     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00840-09     Document Type: Article

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