INDIGO FORMATION BY AROMATIC HYDROCARBON-DEGRADING BACTERIA

Authors
OCONNOR KE HARTMANS S
Citation
Ke. Oconnor et S. Hartmans, INDIGO FORMATION BY AROMATIC HYDROCARBON-DEGRADING BACTERIA, Biotechnology letters, 20(3), 1998, pp. 219-223
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Biotechnology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01415492
Volume
20
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
219 - 223
Database
ISI
SICI code
0141-5492(1998)20:3<219:IFBAHB>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
A variety of aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria expressing differ ent oxygenases were tested for their ability to produce indigo from in dole. Styrene-grown cells of Pseudomonas putida S12 and CA-3 expressin g styrene monooxygenase produced indigo at rates of 4-8 nmol min(-1) m g dry wt(-1). Toluene-grown cells of P. putida F1 and naphthalene-grow n cells of P. putida PpG7 expressing dioxygenases formed indigo at rat es of 1.5 and 2.5 nmol min(-1) mg dry wt(-1), respectively.