Regiospecificity of two multicomponent monooxygenases from Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1: Molecular basis for catabolic adaptation of this microorganism to methylated aromatic compounds

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 4736-4743

  Cafaro, Valeria ^a   Notomista, Eugenio ^a   Capasso, Paola ^a   Di Donato, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DEGRADATION; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOMERS; PH EFFECTS; PHENOLS;

ENERGY SOURCES; ESCHERICHIA COLI CELLS; GENETIC MECHANISMS; METABOLIC PROCESSING;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; BENZENE; ORTHO XYLENE; TOLUENE; TOLUENE ORTHO XYLENE MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATABOLISM; CATALYSIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; KINETICS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGENASES; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TOLUENE; XYLENES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 23744478280     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.8.4736-4743.2005     Document Type: Article

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