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Diversity of the ring-cleaving dioxygenase gene pcaH in a salt marsh bacterial community.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2001
Buchan A, Neidle E L, Moran M A
Abstract excerpt
Degradation of lignin-related aromatic compounds is an important ecological process in the highly productive salt marshes of the southeastern United States, yet little is known about the mediating organisms or their catabolic pathways. Here we report the diversity of a gene encoding a key ring-cleaving enzyme of the beta-ketoadipate pathway, pcaH, amplified from bacterial communities associated with decaying...
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