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Identification of a marine benthic P(3HB)-degrading bacterium isolate and characterization of its P(3HB) depolymerase.
Biomacromolecules - 1 Jan 2000
Kasuya K, Mitomo H, Nakahara M, Akiba A, Kudo T, Doi Y
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A poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] (P(3HB))-degrading marine bacterium (strain NK-1, JCM10458) was isolated from the Pacific Ocean deep-sea floor (1165 m in depth) in Japan. The organism was a motile and Gram negative, aerobic, and rod-shaped bacterium, and its DNA had a guanine-plus-cytosine content...
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