Polychlorinated biphenyls degradation

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. 

Furukawa K, N Arimura (1987) Purification and properties of 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl dioxygenase from polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes and Pseudomonas aeruginosa carrying the cloned bphC gene. J Bacterial 169 924-927. 

Gilbert ES, DE Crowley (1997) Plant compounds that induce polychlorinated biphenyl degradation by Arthro-bacter sp. strain BIB. Appl Environ Microbiol 63 1933-1938. 

Mondello FJ (1989) Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of Pseudomonas strain LB400 genes encoding polychlorinated biphenyl degradation. J Bacteriol 171 1725-1732. 

Taira K, J Hirose, S Hayashida, K Eurukawa (1992) Analysis of bph operon from the polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading strain of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707. J Biol Chem 267 4844-4853. 

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. 

Pellizari VH, S Bezborodnikov, IF Quensen, JM Tiedje (1996) Evaluation of strains isolated by growth on naphthalene and biphenyl for hybridization of genes to dioxygenase probes and polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading ability. Appl Environ Microbiol 62 2053-2058. 

Chavez EP, H Liinsdorf, CA Jerez (2004) Growth of polychlorinated-biphenyl-degrading bacteria in the presence of biphenyl and chlorobiphenyls generates oxidative stress and massive accumulation of inorganic polyphosphate. Appl Environ Microbiol 70 3064-3072. 

Ohtsubo Y, M Shimura, M Delawary, K Kimbara, M Takagi, T Kudo, AOhta, Y Nagata (2003) Novel approach to the improvement of biphenyl and polychlorinated biphenyl degradation activity promoter implantation by homologous recombination. Appl Environ Microbiol 69 146-153. 

Erb, R. W. Wagner-Dobler.I. (1993). Detection of polychlorinated biphenyl degradation genes in polluted sediments by direct DNA extraction and polymerase chain reaction. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 59, 4065-73. 

Hayase, N., Taira, K. Furukawa, K. (1990). Pseudomonas putida KF715 bphABCD operon encoding biphenyl and polychlorinated biphenyl degradation Cloning, analysis, and expression in soil bacteria. Journal of Bacteriology, 172, 1160-4. 

Khan, A. A. Walia, S. K. (1991). Expression, localization, and functional analysis of polychlorinated biphenyl degradation genes cipABCD of Pseudomonas putida. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 57, 1325-32. 

Kikuchi, Y., Yasukochi, Y., Nagata, Y., Fukuda, M. Takagi, M. (1994). Nucleotide sequence and functional analysis of the meta-cleavage pathway involved in biphenyl and polychlorinated biphenyl degradation in Pseudomonas sp. strain KKS102. Journal of Bacteriology, 176, 4269-76. 

McCullar, M. V., Brenner, V., Adams, R. H. Focht, D. D. (1994). Construction of a novel polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading bacterium utilization of 3,4 -dichlorobiphenyl by Pseudomonas acidovorans M3GY. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 60, 3833—9-... 

Walia, A., Khan, A. Rosenthal, N. (1990). Construction and applications of DNA probes for detection of polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading genotypes in toxic organic-contaminated soil environments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 56, 254-9-... 

Yates, J. R. Mondello, F. J. (1989)- Sequence similarities in the genes encoding polychlorinated biphenyl degradation by Pseudomonas strain LB400 and Alcaligenes eutrophus H850. Journal of Bacteriology, 171, 1733-5. 

Hofer, B., Eltis, L. D., Dowling, D. N. Timmis, K. N. (1993). Genetic analysis of a Pseudomonas locus encoding a pathway for bipheny 1/polychlorinated biphenyl degradation. Gem, 130, 47-55. 

Cultures are being found that can degrade both polychlorinated biphenyls and petroleum hydrocarbons. There is also interest in the role of rhizosphere organisms in polychlorinated biphenyl degradation, particularly since some plants exude phenolic compounds into the rhizosphere that can stimulate the aerobic degradation of the less chlorinated biphenyls. 

Fava F, Di Gioia D, Marchetti L, et al. 1993. Aerobic mineralization of chlorobenzoates by a natural polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading mixed bacterial culture. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 40(4) 541-548. 

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