Article
Physiological and molecular genetic evaluation of the dechlorination agent, pyridine-2,6-bis(monothiocarboxylic acid) (PDTC) as a secondary siderophore of Pseudomonas.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2004
Lewis Thomas A, Leach Lynne, Morales Sergio, Austin Paula R, Hartwell Hadley J, Kaplan Benjamin, Forker Cynthia, Meyer Jean-Marie
Abstract excerpt
The bacterial metabolite and transition metal chelator pyridine-2,6-dithiocarboxylic acid (PDTC), promotes a novel and effective means of dechlorination of the toxic and carcinogenic pollutant, carbon tetrachloride. Pyridine-2,6-dithiocarboxylic acid has been presumed to act as a siderophore in the Pseudomonas strains known to produce it. To explore further the physiological function of PDTC production, we have...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Chlorine
- Genes, Reporter
- Iron
- Iron Chelating Agents
- Molecular Biology
- Mutation
- Oligopeptides
- Phenotype
- Pigments, Biological
