The acylase PvdQ has a conserved function among fluorescent Pseudomonas spp.

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 433-439

  Koch, Gudrun ^a   Jimenez, Pol Nadal ^a   Muntendam, Remco ^a   Chen, Yixi ^a   Papaioannou, Evelina ^a   Heeb, Stephan ^b   Cámara, Miguel ^b   Williams, Paul ^b   Cool, Robbert H ^a   Quax, Wim J ^a  

^a Department of Pharmaceutical Biology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS PFO-1; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

EID: 78649721092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00157.x     Document Type: Article

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