Isolation and characterization of a 4-nitrotoluene-oxidizing enzyme from activated sludge by a metagenomic approach

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-139

  Kimura, Nobutada ^a   Sakai, Kayoko ^a   Nakamura, Kazunori ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

4 nitrotoluene; Flavoprotein monooxygenase; Metagenome

Indexed keywords

4 NITROBENZYL ALCOHOL; 4 NITROTOLUENE; 4-NITROBENZYL ALCOHOL; 4-NITROTOLUENE; BENZYL ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; DNA; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; TOLUENE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BENZYL ALCOHOLS; CATALYSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOMIC LIBRARY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; JAPAN; METAGENOMICS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOLUENE;

BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA SP.;

EID: 77954545309     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13426311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME10110     Document Type: Article

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