Chapter 44
Functional Screening a Wide Host-Range Metagenomic Library from a Wastewater Treatment Plant Yields a Novel Alcohol/Aldehyde Dehydrogenase
Margaret Wexler,
Philip L. Bond,
David J. Richardson,
Andrew W. B. Johnston,
Margaret Wexler
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorPhilip L. Bond
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorDavid J. Richardson
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorAndrew W. B. Johnston
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorMargaret Wexler,
Philip L. Bond,
David J. Richardson,
Andrew W. B. Johnston,
Margaret Wexler
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorPhilip L. Bond
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorDavid J. Richardson
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorAndrew W. B. Johnston
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorBook Editor(s):Frans J. de Bruijn,
Frans J. de Bruijn
Laboratory of Plant Micro-organism Interaction, CNRS-INRA, Castanet Tolosan, France
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 16 September 2011
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
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Introduction
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Methods
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Results and Discussion
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Summary
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Internet Resources
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References
INTERNET RESOURCES
- Metagenomic sequencing projects (http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/genomes/lenvs.cgi)
- Verenium web site (http://www.verenium.com/specialty-enzymes.asp)
- Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae genome sequence (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/R_leguminosarum/)
- Artemis: DNA sequence viewer and annotation tool (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis)
- The Arb project (http://www.arb-home.de/)
- BLAST (http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi)
- Ribosomal database project release 10 (http://rdp.cme. msu.edu/)
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