Ongoing functional evolution of the bacterial atrazine chlorohydrolase AtzA

Biodegradation

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-30

  Noor, Sajid ^a,b   Changey, Frédérique ^c   Oakeshott, John G ^a   Scott, Colin ^a   Martin Laurent, Fabrice ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIV BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Dechlorinase; Hydrolase; Metal binding; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DECHLORINASE; HYDROLASE; METAL-BINDING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRIAZINE HERBICIDES; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; METAL IONS; SOILS;

HERBICIDES;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AMINO ACID; ATRAZINE; BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; LABORATORY METHOD; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SELECTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AMINOBACTER; AMINOBACTER AMINOVORANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ATRAZINE; ATRAZINE CHLOROHYDROLASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HERBICIDE; HYDROLASE; SIMAZINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ATRAZINE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CULTURE MEDIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HERBICIDES; HYDROLASES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS; SIMAZINE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84892433864     PISSN: 09239820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10532-013-9637-2     Document Type: Article

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