Widespread known and novel phosphonate utilization pathways in marine bacteria revealed by functional screening and metagenomic analyses

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 222-238

  Martinez, Asuncion ^a   Tyson, Gene W ^a   Delong, Edward F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHONOACETALDEHYDE HYDROLASE; PHOSPHORUS; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HYDROLASES; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHONIC ACIDS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 73349117182     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02062.x     Document Type: Article

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