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Genetic and biochemical characterization of a pathway for the degradation of 2-aminoethylphosphonate in Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 24 Jun 2011
Borisova Svetlana A, Christman Harry D, Metcalf M E Mourey, Zulkepli Nurul A, Zhang Jun Kai, van der Donk Wilfred A, Metcalf William W
Abstract excerpt
A variety of microorganisms have the ability to use phosphonic acids as sole sources of phosphorus. Here, a novel pathway for degradation of 2-aminoethylphosphonate in the bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021 is proposed based on the analysis of the genome sequence. Gene deletion experiments confirmed the involvement of the locus containing phnW, phnA, and phnY genes in the conversion of 2-aminoethylphosphonate...
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