Identification of the monooxygenase gene clusters responsible for the regioselective oxidation of phenol to hydroquinone in mycobacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1214-1220

  Furuya, Toshiki ^a   Hirose, Satomi ^a   Osanai, Hisashi ^a   Semba, Hisashi ^b   Kino, Kuniki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHORETIC ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTERS; GENOME SEQUENCES; HOMOLOGOUS GENES; INDUCED PROTEINS; MONOOXYGENASES; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; N-TERMINAL AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATION ACTIVITIES; OXYGENASES; PARA POSITION; REGIOSELECTIVE OXIDATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMALL SUBUNITS;

ACETONE; AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; OXIDATION; PHENOLS; PROPANE; PROTEINS; REGIOSELECTIVITY;

GENES;

ACETONE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYDROQUINONE; HYDROQUINONE DERIVATIVE; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; PHENOL; RNA 16S;

ACETONE; BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; METABOLISM; OXIDATION; PHENOL; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACETONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROQUINONES; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM GOODII; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 79953185778     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02316-10     Document Type: Article

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