Heterologous expression of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase genes from a novel pyrene-degrading betaproteobacterium

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3552-3559

  Singleton, David R ^a   Hu, Jing ^a   Aitken, Michael D ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BENZO [A] PYRENE; CHRYSENE; CLOSE PROXIMITY; CONTAMINATED SOILS; CONTIGS; DIOXYGENASE GENES; DIOXYGENASES; E. COLI; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORENES; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; METAGENOMIC LIBRARIES; MIXED BACTERIAL CULTURE; PCR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; STABLE-ISOTOPE PROBING;

ANTHRACENE; CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOTOPES; NAPHTHALENE; SOIL POLLUTION;

GENE EXPRESSION;

DIOXYGENASE; INDIGO; INDOLE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PHENANTHRENE; PHENANTHRENE DERIVATIVE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE; PYRENE DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; METABOLISM; PAH; PHENANTHRENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; SOIL POLLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCYCLACEAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIOXYGENASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; INDOLES; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENANTHRENES; PHYLOGENY; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYRENES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHODOCYCLACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHODOCYCLACEAE;

EID: 84861117351     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00173-12     Document Type: Article

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