Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) include a group of organic priority pollutants of
critical environmental and public health concern due to their toxic, genotoxic, mutagenic …

Plasmids are important “vehicles” for the communication of genetic information between
bacteria. The exchange of plasmids transmits pathogenically and environmentally relevant …

The large-scale application of xenobiotics adversely affects the environment. The genes that
are present in the chromosome of the bacteria are considered nonmobile, whereas the …

Recent advances in molecular biology have extended our understanding of the metabolic
processes related to microbial transformation of petroleum hydrocarbons. The physiological …

Interest in the biodegradation mechanisms and environmental fate of polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) is motivated by their ubiquitous distribution, their low bioavailability …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widespread in various ecosystems and are
pollutants of great concern due to their potential toxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity …

In bacteria, horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is widely recognized as the mechanism
responsible for the widespread distribution of antibiotic resistance genes, gene clusters …

Aromatic hydrocarbon dioxygenases belong to a large family of Rieske non-heme iron
oxygenases. The dioxygenases have a broad substrate specificity and catalyze …

Lignin is an important structural component of terrestrial plants and is readily generated
during biomass fractionation in lignocellulose processing facilities. Due to lacking …

Real-Time PCR based assays were developed to quantify Gram positive (GP) and Gram
negative (GN) bacterial populations that are capable of degrading the polycyclic aromatic …