Isotope effects of enzymatic dioxygenation of nitrobenzene and 2-nitrotoluene by nitrobenzene dioxygenase

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 10750-10759

  Pati, Sarah G ^a,b   Kohler, Hans Peter E ^a   Bolotin, Jakov ^a   Parales, Rebecca E ^c   Hofstetter, Thomas B ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; ENZYMES; NITROBENZENE; SUBSTRATES;

BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; COMPOUND SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE ENRICHMENTS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; KINETIC ISOTOPE EFFECTS; NITROAROMATIC COMPOUND; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE TRANSPORTS;

ISOTOPES;

2 NITROTOLUENE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; CARBON 13; CATECHOL; DEUTERIUM; DIOXYGENASE; GUAIACOL; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE; NITROBENZENE; NITROBENZENE DIOXYGENASE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 2-NITROTOLUENE; CATECHOL DERIVATIVE; NITRITE; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; TOLUENE;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; COMPLEXITY; ENRICHMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; OXYGENATION; TRANSFORMATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIODEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOADDITION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOREMEDIATION; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BIOCATALYSIS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CATECHOLS; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; DEUTERIUM; DIOXYGENASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; NITRITES; NITROBENZENES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; TOLUENE;

EID: 84924778002     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5028844     Document Type: Article

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