Antibacterial enzymes from the functional screening of metagenomic libraries hosted in Ralstonia metallidurans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 354, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-26

  Iqbal, Hala A ^a   Craig, Jeffrey W ^a   Brady, Sean F ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EDNA; Metagenomic; Soil

Indexed keywords

ANTIBACTERIAL ENZYME; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOSIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOLYSIS; GROWTH INHIBITION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LETTER; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA METALLIDURANS; BACTERIAL GENOME; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RALSTONIA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84899953154     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12431     Document Type: Letter

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