Harvesting of novel polyhydroxyalkanaote (PHA) synthase encoding genes from a soil metagenome library using phenotypic screening

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 321, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 150-156

  Schallmey, Marcus ^a   Ly, Anh ^a   Wang, Chunxia ^a   Meglei, Gabriela ^a   Voget, Sonja ^b   Streit, Wolfgang R ^b   Driscoll, Brian T ^c   Charles, Trevor C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioplastics; Broad host range cosmid library; Functional complementation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; POLYHYDROALKANAOTE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC SCREENING; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOIL ANALYSIS;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; METAGENOME; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 79960372620     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02324.x     Document Type: Article

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