… degradation, this plasmid has been shown to mediate the degradation of m- and p-toluate,
m- and p-xylene … a description of pWWO, many other TOL plasmids have been described,most …

… The TOL plasmid upper pathway operon encodes enzymes involved in the catabolism of
aromatic hydrocarbons such as toluene and xylenes. The regulator of the gene pathway, the …

… when the TOL plasmid is introduced. To construct a hybrid strain, we isolated the TOL
plasmid from P. putida mt-2 and then transformed P. putida F39/D with the isolated TOL plasmid. …

… a plasmid, and it is likely to be a TOL plasmid, as it is referred in literature that BTX biodegradation
… enzymes are clustered in two operons of the TOL plasmid (10). As mentioned above, …

… of enzymes involved in xylene degradation in xylene-negative Pxy … The genes specifying
all the xylene-degradative enzymes, … TOL, a naturally occurring conjugative plasmid (18), in …

… putida mr-2 strain is using a pathway carried on the TOL plasmid. Besides utilizing toluene
(… a negative effect on xylene degradation rates. When the degradation of BTEX mixture was …

… TOL plasmids in Pseudomonas putida encode the metabolic pathways for the degradation
of toluene, xylenes, and their alcohol and carboxylate derivatives (1). The TOL degradation …

… The TOL piasmid from Pseudomonasputida encodes a pathway for the degradation of toiuene
and xylenes. The first step of this degradative pathway involves the oxidation of the methyl …

… All 13 strains appeared to carry TOL plasmids superficially similar … could utilize toluene,
m-xylene, and p-xylene as sole carbon and … Transmissible plasmid coding for the degradation of …

… that encode for the biodegradation of xylenes, toluene, as well … degradation and the specific
degradation pathway is shown in Figure 1. The TOL plasmid is a broad host range plasmid …