Aerobic degradation of mercaptosuccinate by the gram-negative bacterium variovorax paradoxus strain B4

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 527-539

  Carbajal Rodríguez, Irma ^a   Stöveken, Nadine ^a   Satola, Barbara ^a   Wübbeler, Jan Hendrik ^a   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCONIC ACID; MOLYBDOPTERIN OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SUCCINIC ACID; SULFATE; TAURINE; THIOMALIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBON SOURCE; CELL FRACTIONATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE INSERTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; VARIOVORAX PARADOXUS; WILD TYPE;

3-HYDROXYACYL COA DEHYDROGENASES; AEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMAMONADACEAE; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GLUCONATES; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFATES; SULFURTRANSFERASES; TAURINE; TEMPERATURE; THIOMALATES;

NEGIBACTERIA; VARIOVORAX PARADOXUS;

EID: 78650922888     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00793-10     Document Type: Article

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