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Article: Pseudomonas fluorescens ompW: plasmid localization and requirement for naphthalene uptake.(Report)
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- Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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Introduction
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), known carcinogens and mutagens, are ubiquitous in the environment and have been the subject of numerous studies directed at their bioremediation (McNally et al. 1998; Yen and Serdar 1988; Boonchan et al. 2000; Kanaly and Harayama 2000; Karthikeyan and Bhandari 2001; van Hamme et al. 2003; Tropel and Meer 2004; Johnsen et al. 2005). In particular, the catabolism of naphthalene, the simplest PAH, has been generally described with the genes encoding the catabolic enzymes localized on a large catabolic plasmid (Barnsley 1975a, 1975b, 1976; Yen and Serdar 1988; van Hamme et al. 2003; Li et al. 2004). Following its ...