Article
Identification and characterization of a transmissible linear plasmid from Rhodococcus erythropolis BD2 that encodes isopropylbenzene and trichloroethene catabolism.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Mar 1994
Dabrock B, Kesseler M, Averhoff B, Gottschalk G
Abstract excerpt
Rhodococcus erythropolis BD2, which is able to utilize isopropylbenzene as a sole carbon and energy source, was shown to contain a conjugative linear plasmid, pBD2. The estimated size of pBD2 is 208 to 212 kb. Linear plasmid-deficient strains had lost both the isopropylbenzene degradation and tri...
Topics
- Arsenites
- Benzene Derivatives
- Biodegradation, Environmental
- Conjugation, Genetic
- Drug Resistance
- Mercury
- Mutation
- Oxygenases
- Phenotype
- Plasmids
- Rhodococcus
- Trichloroethylene