Genetic analysis of phenoxyalkanoic acid degradation in Sphingomonas herbicidovorans MH

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 6066-6075

  Müller, Tina A ^a   Byrde, Steven M ^a   Werlen, Christoph ^a   Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a,b   Kohler, Hans Peter E ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIA; DEGRADATION; ENZYMES; GENES;

GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXCHANGE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PHENOXYALKANOIC ACID;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ALKANOIC ACID; ALKOXYBENZENE DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYMETHYLENEBUTENOLIDASE; DICHLOROCATECHOL 1,2 DIOXYGENASE; DICHLOROPHENOL HYDROXYLASE; HYDROLASE; MALEYLACETATE REDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; PERMEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DEGRADATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CADR GENE; DCC GENE; DEGRADATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RDPA GENE; REGULATOR GENE; SDPA GENE; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS HERBICIDOVORANS;

2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; 2-METHYL-4-CHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; DIOXYGENASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLATES; HERBICIDES; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPHINGOMONAS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DELFTIA; DELFTIA ACIDOVORANS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; SPHINGOBIUM HERBICIDOVORANS; SPHINGOMONAS;

EID: 8144222968     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.10.6066-6075.2004     Document Type: Article

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