Comparing the dehalogenase gene pool in cultivated alpha-halocarboxylic acid-degrading bacteria with the environmental metagene pool

Article Abstract:

The authors describe the study on dehalogenase gene pool in bacteria isolated on dichloropropionic acid. They have investigated the relationship between this gene pool and environmetal metagene pool from which bacteria have been isolated via the use of culture-independent and culture-dependent approaches, and the results demonstrate the existence of a large bias introduced by culturing both in isolated bacteria and in the degradative genes from these bacteria.

United Kingdom, Biological diversity, Biodiversity, Composition, Microbial populations, Carboxylic acids

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Homologous npdGI genes in 2,4-dinitrophenol- and 4-nitrophenol-degrading Rhodococcus spp

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Research has been conducted on Rhodococcus erythropolis HL PM-1 which grows on toxic polyaromatics sich as 2,4-dinitrophenol as a nitrogen source. The authors suggest that NADPH-dependent F (sub)420 reductases, encoded by npdG, form a new group within F (sub)420 -dependent NADPH reductases.

Japan, Germany, All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing, Industrial inorganic chemicals, not elsewhere classified, Nitrogen Compounds, Phenols, Phenols (Class of compounds), Microbial genetics

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