Evidence supporting dissimilatory and assimilatory lignin degradation in Enterobacter lignolyticus SCF1

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  DeAngelis, Kristen M ^a   Sharma, Deepak ^a   Varney, Rebecca ^a   Simmons, Blake ^b,c   Isern, Nancy G ^d   Markilllie, Lye Meng ^d   Nicora, Carrie ^d   Norbeck, Angela D ^d   Taylor, Ronald C ^d   Aldrich, Joshua T ^d   Robinson, Errol W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

4 hydroxyphenylacetate degradation pathway; Anaerobic metabolism; Catalase peroxidase enzymes; Decomposition; Glutathione S transferase proteins; Phenol degradation

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BENZALDEHYDE; BENZOIC ACID; BIOFUEL; CARBON; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROQUINONE; LEVODOPA; LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PEROXIDASE; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

ABTS RADICAL SCAVENGING ASSAY; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER LIGNOLYTICUS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GROWTH CURVE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROLYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVER HAUSER EFFECT SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PEROXIDASE ASSAY; PHENOL OXIDASE ASSAY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER;

EID: 84885399961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00280     Document Type: Article

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