Biphenyl dioxygenase

Hurtubise Y, D Barriault, M Sylvestre (1998) Involvement of the terminal oxygenase P subunit in the biphenyl dioxygenase reactivity pattern towards chlorobiphenyls. J Bacterial 180 5828-5835. 

Mondello FJ, MP Turcich, JH Lobos, BD Erickson (1997) Identification and modification of biphenyl dioxygenase sequences that determine the specificity of polychlorinated biphenyl degradation. Appl Environ Microbiol 63 3096-3103. 

Erickson BD, FJ Mondello (1992) Nucleotide sequencing and transcriptional mapping of the genes encoding biphenyl dioxygenase, a multicomponent polychlorinated-biphenyl-degrading enzyme in Pseudomonas strain LB400. J Bacteriol 174 2903-2912. 

Hurtubise Y, D Barriault, J Powlowski, M Sylvestre (1995) Purification and characterization of the Comamonas testosteroni B-356 biphenyl dioxygenase components. J Bacteriol 111 6610-6618. 

Arnett CM, JV Parales, JD Haddock (2000) Influence of chlorine snbstitnents on rates of oxidation of chlorinated biphenyls by the biphenyl dioxygenase of Burkholderia sp. strain LB400. Appl Environ Microbiol 66 2928-2933. 

Barriault D, M Sylvestre (2004) Evolution of the biphenyl dioxygenase BphA from Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 by random mutagenesis of multiple sites in Region III. J Biol Chem 279 47480 7488. 

Barriault D, M-M Plante, M Sylvestre (2002) Eamily shuffling of a targeted bphA region to engineer biphenyl dioxygenase. J Bacteriol 184 3794-3800. 

Kimura N, A Nishi, M Goto, K Furukawa (1997) Functional analysis of a variety of chimeric dioxygenases constructed from two biphenyl dioxygenases that are similar structurally but different functionally. J Bacterial 179 3936-3943. 

Seeger M, B Camara, B Hofer (2001) Dehalogenation, denitration, dehydroxylation, and angular attack on substituted biphenyls and related compounds by biphenyl dioxygenase. J Bacteriol 183 3548-3555. 

Suenaga H, T Watanabe, M Sato, Ngadiman, K Eurukawa (2002) Alteration of regiospecificity in biphenyl dioxygenase by active-site engineering. J Bacteriol 184 3682-3688. 

Witzig R, H Junca, H-J Hecht, DH Pieper (2006) Assessment of toluene/biphenyl dioxygenase gene diversity in benzene-polluted soils links between benzene degradation and genes similar to those encoding isopropylbenzene dioxygenases. Appl Environ Microbiol 72 3504-3514. 

Erickson, B.D. Mondello, F.J. (1993). Enhanced biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls after site-directed mutagenesis of a biphenyl dioxygenase gene. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 59, 3858-62. 

Bmehlmann, F. and W. Chen 1999. Timing biphenyl dioxygenase for extended substrate specificity. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 63 544—551. 

Olivo, D. Parker, Oxidation of 2-methoxy-naphthalene by toluene, naphthalene and biphenyl dioxygenases structure and absolute stereochemistry of metabolites, Bioorg. Med. Chem. 1994, 2, 727-734. 

Bruhlmaim, E. and Chen, W. 1999. Tuning biphenyl dioxygenase for extended substrate specificity. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 63 544—51. 

Asturias, J.A. Diaz, E. Timmis, K.N., The evolutionary relationship of biphenyl dioxygenase from Gram-positive Rhodococcus globerulus P6 to multicomponent dioxygenases from gramnegative bacteria Gene 1995, 156, 11-18. 

Kumamaru T, Suenaga H, Mitsuoka M, Watanabe T, Eurukawa K. Enhanced degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls by directed evolution of biphenyl dioxygenase. Nat. Biotechnol. 1998 16 663-666. 

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