The membrane-associated monooxygenase in the butane-oxidizing Gram-positive bacterium Nocardioides sp. strain CF8 is a novel member of the AMO/PMO family

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 390-396

  Sayavedra Soto, Luis A ^a   Hamamura, Natsuko ^c   Liu, Chih Wen ^d   Kimbrel, Jeffrey A ^a   Chang, Jeff H ^a,b   Arp, Daniel J ^a  

^a Department of Botany and Plant Pathology ^*  (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NOCARDIOIDES SP.; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 79955973823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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