Role of oxygenases in guiding diverse metabolic pathways in the bacterial degradation of low-molecular-weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: A review

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-90

  Mallick, Somnath ^a   Chakraborty, Joydeep ^b   Dutta, Tapan K ^b  

^a Saldiha College Bankura   (India)

^b BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; biodiversity; carcinogenic; dioxygenase; PAHs

Indexed keywords

ACENAPHTHENE DERIVATIVE; ACENAPHTHYLENE; ANTHRACENE; FLUORENE; NAPHTHALENE; OXYGENASE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIODEGRADATION; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; OXYGENASES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78651393911     PISSN: 1040841X     EISSN: 15497828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/1040841X.2010.512268     Document Type: Review

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