Journal of Microbiology

1 "alkylbenzenes"

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Identification of Two-Component Regulatory Genes Involved in o-Xylene Degradation by Rhodococcus sp. Strain DK17: Dockyu Kim , Jong-Chan Chae , Gerben J. Zylstra , Ho-Yong Sohn , Gi-Seok Kwon , Eungbin Kim; J. Microbiol. 2005;43(1):49-53.; DOI: https://doi.org/2138 [pii]

Abstract: Putative genes for a two-component signal transduction system (akbS and akbT) were detected near the alkylbenzene-degrading operon of Rhodococcus sp. DK17. Sequence analysis indicates that AkbS possesses potential ATP-binding and histidine autophosphorylation sites in the N- and C-terminal regions, respectively, and that AkbT has a typical response regulator domain. Mutant analysis combined with RT-PCR experiments further shows that AkbS is required to induce the expression of o-xylene dioxygenase in DK17.

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