Microbial gutta-Percha degradation shares common steps with rubber degradation by Nocardia nova SH22a

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1140-1149

  Luo, Quan ^a   Hiessl, Sebastian ^a   Poehlein, Anja ^b   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX CELLS; DEGRADATION MECHANISM; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; ELECTROPORATION; GENETIC STUDIES; NOCARDIA; OPTIMIZED PROTOCOL; OXIDO-REDUCTION; PLASMID DNA; RACEMASE; STABLE MUTANTS; TN5096-BASED TRANSPOSON MUTAGENESIS; TRANSFORMANTS; TWO WAYS;

BACTERIA; DEGRADATION; ENZYMES; OPTIMIZATION; REDOX REACTIONS;

RUBBER;

BACTERIAL DNA; GUTTA PERCHA; RUBBER;

BACTERIUM; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OPTIMIZATION; OXIDATION; PLASMID; RUBBER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOCARDIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPORATION; GUTTA-PERCHA; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NOCARDIA; PLASMIDS; RUBBER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84874724875     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03016-12     Document Type: Article

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