Mining of unexplored habitats for novel chitinases - chiA as a helper gene proxy in metagenomics

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1347-1358

  Cretoiu, Mariana Silvia ^a   Kielak, Anna Maria ^a   Al Soud, Waleed Abu ^b   Sørensen, Søren J ^b   Van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacterial community; chiA; chiA pyrosequencing; Environment; Functional screening

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CHIA; ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTIONAL SCREENING; PYROSEQUENCING;

CHITIN; ECOSYSTEMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOILS;

GENES;

CHITINASE; CHITINASE A; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; HYMECROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; CHITIN; DATA SET; DATABASE; DICOTYLEDON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOMICS; HABITAT TYPE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPONGE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOFILTER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAPENSIA LAPPONICA; DNA ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; EPHYDATIA FLUVIATILIS; FRESHWATER SPECIES; GENE DOSAGE; HABITAT; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYRIA DIGYNA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYROSEQUENCING; RHIZOSPHERE; RHIZOSPHERIC MICROORGANISM; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; CHITINASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; POLYGONACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORIFERA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EPHYDATIA FLUVIATILIS; OXYRIA DIGYNA; SPONGILLIDAE;

EID: 84863821075     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4057-5     Document Type: Article

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