Ferulic acid degradation encoded by a catabolic plasmid |
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Authors: | V. Andreoni G. Bestetti |
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Affiliation: | Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Alimentari e Microbiologiche, Universitàdi Milano, Milan, Italy;Dipartimento di Genetica e di Biologia dei Microrganismi, Universitàdi Milano, Milan, Italy |
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Abstract: | Abstract A strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens was isolated from soil with ferulic acid as sole source of carbon and energy. The ability to degrade this compound iis plasmid-encoded, as shown by the transfer of such degradative capacity from the wild-type into a recipient strain by conjugation and isolation of a plasmid from the exconjugants, identical to that from the wild-type and the exconjugants. |
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Keywords: | Metabolism Lignin-related aromatic compound Genetic transmissibility |
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