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phoD Alkaline Phosphatase Gene Diversity in Soil.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2015
Ragot Sabine A, Kertesz Michael A, Bünemann Else K
Abstract excerpt
Phosphatase enzymes are responsible for much of the recycling of organic phosphorus in soils. The PhoD alkaline phosphatase takes part in this process by hydrolyzing a range of organic phosphoesters. We analyzed the taxonomic and environmental distribution of phoD genes using whole-genome and metagenome databases. phoD alkaline phosphatase was found to be spread across 20 bacterial phyla and was ubiquitous in the...
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