Active and silent members in the mlr gene cluster of a microcystin-degrading bacterium isolated from Lake Taihu, China

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 322, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 108-114

  Jiang, Yongguang ^a,b   Shao, Jihai ^c   Wu, Xingqiang ^d   Xu, Yao ^e   Li, Renhui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HUNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^e NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Degradation efficiency; Frame shift mutation; Gene expression; Novosphingobium

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICROCYSTIN LR; WATER;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LETTER; MICROCYSTINASE GENE; MLR GENE; MLRB GENE; MLRC GENE; MLRD GENE; NONHUMAN; NOVOSPHINGOBIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LAKES; MICROCYSTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NOVOSPHINGOBIUM;

EID: 80051664960     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02337.x     Document Type: Letter

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