Genetic identification of a putative vinyl chloride reductase in Dehalococcoides sp. strain BAV1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 6347-6351

  Krajmalnik Brown, Rosa ^a   Hölscher, Tina ^c   Thomson, Ivy N ^b   Saunders, F Michael ^a   Ritalahti, Kirsti M ^a   Löffler, Frank E ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DECHLORINATION; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY;

DEHALOCOCOOIDES; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASE (RDASE); TRANSCRIPTION ANALYSIS; VINYL CHLORIDE REDUCTASE;

ENZYMES;

OXIDOREDUCTASE; PRIMER DNA; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYL CHLORIDE;

ENZYME;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLOROFLEXI; CHROMOSOME WALKING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; VINYL CHLORIDE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 8144229485     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.10.6347-6351.2004     Document Type: Article

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