This review is a survey of bacterial dehalogenases that catalyze the cleavage of halogen
substituents from haloaromatics, haloalkanes, haloalcohols, and haloalkanoic acids …

The management of toxic wastes using biological processes offers exciting possibilities for
research. Although some microorganisms are inherently capable of metabolizing some toxic …

Soil Ecology is designed to meet the increasing challenge faced by today's environmental
scientists, ecologists, agriculturalists, and biotechnologists for an integrated approach to soil …

Mineralization of organic molecules by microbes is essential for the carbon cycle to operate.
The massive mobilization of compounds stored in natural resources, or the introduction of …

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 …

PobR is a transcriptional activator required for the expression of pobA, the structural gene for
p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase. The pobA and pobR genes are divergently transcribed and …

Xylene oxygenase, which is encoded on the TOL plasmid pWWO of Pseudomonas putida mt-
2, is a key enzyme system in the degradation of toluene and xylenes by this organism. It was …

A PCR primer set and an internal probe that are specific for Pseudomonas sp. strain B13, a
3-chlorobenzoate-metabolizing strain, were developed. Using this primer set and probe, we …

Comamonas testosteroni JH5 was isolated from a mixed bacterial culture enriched on
different chloro-and methylphenols. The strain completely mineralized a mixture consisting …

A mutant strain of Azobacter sp. GP1 converted 4-chlorphenol to 4-chlorocatechol under
cometabolic conditions. Under the same conditions the wild-type strain accumulated yellow …