Involvement of two latex-clearing proteins during rubber degradation and insights into the subsequent degradation pathway revealed by the genome sequence of Gordonia polyisoprenivorans strain VH2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2874-2887

  Hiessl, Sebastian ^a   Schuldes, Jörg ^b   Thürmer, Andrea ^b   Halbsguth, Tobias ^a   Bröker, Daniel ^a   Angelov, Angel ^c   Liebl, Wolfgang ^c   Daniel, Rolf ^b   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE GENES; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; CURRENT DATA; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; DELETION MUTANTS; GC CONTENTS; GENOME SEQUENCES; GORDONIA POLYISOPRENIVORANS STRAIN VH2; INCREASING PRODUCTION; KEY ENZYMES; LITERATURE SEARCH; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; POLY(CIS-1 ,4-ISOPRENE); PROTEIN-CODING; TRANSPOSON MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LATEXES; PROTEINS; RUBBER; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

SYNTHETIC RUBBER;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LATEX; RUBBER;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CHROMOSOME; GENOME; GENOMICS; MUTAGENICITY; PLASMID; PROTEIN; RUBBER; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON;

ACTINOMYCETALES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LATEX; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RUBBER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

GORDONIA POLYISOPRENIVORANS;

EID: 84861112198     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07969-11     Document Type: Article

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