Catabolic pathway for 2-nitroimidazole involves a novel nitrohydrolase that also confers drug resistance

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1010-1017

  Qu, Yi ^a   Spain, Jim C ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; NITROIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; NITROIMIDAZOLES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SP.;

EID: 79953278690     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02406.x     Document Type: Article

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