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Recent Papers

Recent Biodegradation Publications 1995-present

Shaw L.E., Jones R.M. & Williams P.A. (2002)A third transposable element ISPpu12 from the toluene-xylene catabolic (TOL) plasmid pWW0 of Pseudomonas putida mt-2. J.Bacteriol. (in press). See Abstract.

Hughes M.A., Baggs M.J.,  Al-Dulayyami J., Baird M.S. & Williams P.A. (2002) Accumulation of 2-aminophenoxazin-3-one-7-carboxylate during growth of Pseudomonas putida TW3 on 4-nitro-substituted substrates requires 4-hydroxylaminobenzoate lyase (PnbB). App. Environ. Micro. (in press). See Abstract.

Zhou N-Y.,  Al-Dulayyami J., Baird M.S.  &  Williams P.A. (2002)  Salicylate 5-hydroxylase from Ralstonia sp. strain U2: a monooxygenase with close relationships to and shared electron transport proteins with naphthalene dioxygenase. J.Bacteriol. 184: 1547-1555. See Abstract.

Hughes M.A. & Williams P.A. (2001) Cloning and characterization of the pnb genes encoding the enzymes for 4-nitrobenzoate catabolism in Pseudomonas putida TW3. J.Bacteriol. 183: 1225-1232. See Abstract

Zhou N-Y, Fuenmayor, S.L. & Williams P.A. (2001) nag Genes of Ralstonia (formerly Pseudomonas) sp. strain U2 encoding the enzymes for gentisate catabolism. J.Bacteriol. 183: 700-708. See Abstract

Jones R.M. & Williams P.A. (2001)  areCBA is an operon in Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1 and is controlled by AreR, a sigma 54-dependent regulator.  J.Bacteriol. 183:405-409. See Abstract

James K.D.,  Hughes M.A. & Williams, P.A. (2000). Cloning and expression of ntnD encoding a novel NAD(P)-independent 4-nitrobenzyl alcohol dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas sp. strain TW3. J. Bacteriol.  182: 3136-3141. See Abstract

Jones R.M., Pagmantidis V. & Williams P.A. (2000) sal genes determining the catabolism of salicylate esters are part of a supraoperonic cluster of catabolic genes in Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1. J.Bacteriol. 182:.2018-2025. See Abstract

Jones R.M., Collier L.S., Neidle E.L. & Williams P.A. (1999) areABC genes determine the catabolism of aryl esters in Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1. J.Bacteriol. 181: 4568-4575. See Abstract.

Duetz W.A.,  Wind B., van Andel J.G., Barnes M.R., Williams P.A. & Rutgers, M. (1998) Biodegradation kinetics of toluene, m-xylene, p-xylene and their intermediates through the upper TOL pathway in Pseudomonas putida (pWW0). Microbiology, 144:1669-1675. See Abstract.

Aemprapa S., & Williams P.A. (1998) The implications of the xylQ gene of TOL plasmid pWW102 for the evolution of aromatic catabolic pathways. Microbiology, 144: 1387-1396. See Abstract

Fuenmayor, S.L., Wild, M., Boyes, A.L. & Williams P.A. (1998) A gene cluster encoding steps in the conversion of naphthalene to gentisate in Pseudomonas sp. U2. J.Bacteriol.180: 2522-2530. See Abstract

James, K.D. & Williams P.A. (1998) ntn genes determining the early steps in the divergent catabolism of 4-nitrotoluene and toluene in Pseudomonas TW3. J.Bacteriol. 180:2043-2049. See Abstract

Barnes M.R., Duetz W.A. & Williams P.A. (1997) A 3-(3-hydroxyphenyl)propionic acid catabolic pathway in Rhodococcus globerulus PWD1: cloning and characterization of the hpp operon. J. Bacteriol..179:6145-6153. See Abstract

Williams P.A. & Shaw L.M. (1997) mucK, a gene in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus ADP1 (BD413) encodes the ability to grow on exogeneous cis,cis-muconate as the sole carbon source. J. Bacteriol..179:5935-5942. See Abstract

Gallegos M.-T., Williams P.A. & Ramos J.L. (1997) Transcriptional control of the multiple catabolic pathways encoded on the TOL plasmid pWW53 of Pseudomonas putida MT53. J. Bacteriol..179:5024-5029.

Schenzle A., Lenke H., Fischer P., Williams P.A., & Knackmuss, H.-J. (1997) Catabolism of 3-nitrophenol by Ralstonia eutropha JMP 134. App. Environ. Microbiol..63:1421-1427.

Williams P.A., Shaw L.M., Pitt C.W. & Vrecl M. (1997) xylUW, two genes at the start of the upper pathway operon of TOL plasmid pWW0, appear to play no essential part in determining its catabolic phenotype. Microbiology UK.143:101-107.

Platt A., Shingler V., Taylor S.C. & Williams P.A. (1995). The 4-hydroxy-2-oxovalerate aldolase and acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (acylating) encoded by the nahM and nahO genes of the naphthalene catabolic plasmid pWW60-22 provide further evidence of conservation of meta-cleavage pathway gene sequences. Microbiology UK. 141:2223-2233.

Lloyd-Jones G. & Williams P.A. (1995). Inactivation of 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl dioxygenase from Pseudomonas sp. strain CB406 by 3,4-dihydroxybiphenyl (3-phenylcatechol). Biodegradation. 6:11-17.