Pseudomonas linalool

The initial hydroxylation in the degradation of some terpenes the ring methylene group of camphor by Pseudomonas putida (Katagiri et al. 1968 Tyson et al. 1972 Koga et al. 1986), and the isopropylidene methyl group of linalool by a strain of P. putida (Ullah et al. 1990). 

Vandenbergh PA, RL Cole (1986) Plasmid involvement in linalool metabolism by Pseudomonas fluorescens. Appl Environ Microbiol 52 939-940. 

In 1977, a Pseudomonad was isolated from soil by enrichment culture technique with linalool as the sole source of carbon and energy [36]. The bacterial strain was later identified as Pseudomonas incognita and given the name linalool strain . It was also capable of growing on geraniol, nerol and limonene. The biotransformation of geraniol by this... 

As mentioned before, a Pseudomonas incognita was isolated by enrichment technique on the monoterpene alcohol linalool that was also able to grow on geraniol, nerol and limonene [36]. The metabolism of limonene by this bacterium was also investigated [37]. After fermentation the medium yielded as main product a crystallic acid, perillic acid, together with unmetabolised limonene, and some oxygenated compounds dihydrocarvone, carvone, carveol, p-menth-8-en-1 -ol-2-one, p-menth-8-ene-1,2-diol or p-menth-1 -ene-6,9-diol (structure not fully elucidated) and finally / -isopropenyl pimelic acid. 

Rama-Devi, J. and Battacharyya, P.K. 1977. Microbial transformation of terpenes Part XXIV. Pathways of degradation of geraniol, nerol and limonene by Pseudomonas incognita (linalool strain). Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 14 359-363. 

FIGURE 19.16 Degradative metabolic pathway of (+)-linalool (206) by Pseudomonas pseudomallei. (Modi ed from Murakami, T. et al., Nippon Nogei Kagaku Kaishi. 47, 699,1973.)... 

FIGURE 19.17 Biotransformation of linalool (206) by Pseudomonas incognita (Madyastha et al., 1977) and Streptomyces albus NRRL B1865. (Modi ed from David, L. and Veschambre, H., Tetrahadron Lett., 25, 543, 1984.)... 

Rama Devi, J., S.G. Bhat, and P.K. Bhattacharyya, 1977. Microbiological transformations of terpenes. Part XXV. Enzymes involved in the degradation of linalool in the Pseudomonas incognita, linalool strain. Indian . Biochem. Biophys., 15 323-327. 

Pseudomonas incognita Linalool-10-methyl-hydroxlase Linalool-8-methyl-hydroxlase... 

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