Molecular and functional analysis of the TOL plasmid pWWO from Pseudomonas putida and cloning of genes for the entire regulated aromatic ring meta cleavage …

FC Franklin, M Bagdasarian… - Proceedings of the …, 1981 - National Acad Sciences
The genetic organization of the Pseudomonas putida plasmid pWWO-161, which encodes
enzymes for the degradation of toluene and related aromatic hydrocarbons, has been …

The regulatory logic of m‐xylene biodegradation by Pseudomonas putida mt‐2 exposed by dynamic modelling of the principal node Ps/Pr of the TOL plasmid

M Koutinas, MC Lam, A Kiparissides… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The structure of the extant transcriptional control network of the TOL plasmid pWW0 born by
Pseudomonas putida mt‐2 for biodegradation of m‐xylene is far more complex than one …

Functional redundancy in phenol and toluene degradation in Pseudomonas stutzeri strains isolated from the Baltic Sea

E Heinaru, E Naanuri, M Grünbach, M Jõesaar… - Gene, 2016 - Elsevier
In the present study we describe functional redundancy of bacterial multicomponent
monooxygenases (toluene monooxygenase (TMO) and toluene/xylene monooxygenase …

Metabolic engineering of bacteria for environmental applications: construction of Pseudomonas strains for biodegradation of 2-chlorotoluene

MA Haro, V de Lorenzo - Journal of Biotechnology, 2001 - Elsevier
In this article, we illustrate the challenges and bottlenecks in the metabolic engineering of
bacteria destined for environmental bioremediation, by reporting current efforts to construct …

Responses of Pseudomonas putida to toxic aromatic carbon sources

T Krell, J Lacal, ME Guazzaroni, A Busch… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
A number of bacteria can use toxic compounds as carbon sources and have developed
complex regulatory networks to protect themselves from the toxic effects of these compounds …

Degradation of chlorotoluenes by in vivo constructed hybrid strains: problems of enzyme specificity, induction and prevention of meta-pathway

U Brinkmann, W Reineke - FEMS microbiology letters, 1992 - academic.oup.com
The activities of the TOL plasmid-coded xylene oxygenase, benzylalcohol dehydrogenase,
benzaldehyde dehydrogenase of Pseudomas putida strain PaW1 were tested with …

Identification of a membrane protein and a truncated LysR-type regulator associated with the toluene degradation pathway in Pseudomonas putida F1

Y Wang, M Rawlings, DT Gibson, D Labbé… - Molecular and General …, 1995 - Springer
A 3 kb DNA region upstream of the toluene degradation (tod) genes, todFC1C2BADEGIH, in
Pseudomonas putida F1 (Pp F1) was sequenced. Two divergently arranged open reading …

Engineering of Quasi-Natural Pseudomonas putida Strains for Toluene Metabolism through anortho-Cleavage Degradation Pathway

S Panke, JM Sánchez-Romero… - Applied and …, 1998 - Am Soc Microbiol
To construct a bacterial catalyst for bioconversion of toluene and several alkyl and chloro-
and nitro-substituted derivatives into the corresponding benzoates, the upper TOL operon of …

Self-mobilization and organization of the genes encoding the toluene metabolic pathway of Pseudomonas mendocina KR1

A Wright, RH Olsen - Applied and environmental microbiology, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
The toluene metabolic pathway of Pseudomonas mendocina KR1 is chromosomally
encoded, but the pathway could be transferred by conjugation from strain KR1 to the …

Metabolic engineering of Pseudomonas putida for the simultaneous biodegradation of benzene, toluene, and p‐xylene mixture

JY Lee, JR Roh, HS Kim - Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
For the complete biodegradation of a mixture of benzene, toluene, and p―xylene (BTX), a
critical metabolic step that can connect two existing metabolic pathways of aromatic …