The ArC/XylS family of prokaryotic positive transcriptional regulators includes more than 100
proteins and polypeptides derived from open reading frames translated from DNA …

During the last decades a large number of flavin-dependent monooxygenases have been
isolated and studied. This has revealed that flavoprotein monooxygenases are able to …

Monooxygenases are enzymes that catalyze the insertion of a single oxygen atom from O2
into an organic substrate. In order to carry out this type of reaction, these enzymes need to …

Although Escherichia coli has long been recognized as the best-understood living organism,
little was known about its abilities to use aromatic compounds as sole carbon and energy …

Human activities have resulted in the release and introduction into the environment of a
plethora of aromatic chemicals. The interest in discovering how bacteria are dealing with …

In order to design a biocatalyst for the production of optically pure styrene oxide, an
important building block in organic synthesis, the metabolic pathway and molecular biology …

Pseudomonas sp. strain U2 was isolated from oil-contaminated soil in Venezuela by
selective enrichment on naphthalene as the sole carbon source. The genes for naphthalene …

Flavoprotein monooxygenases create valuable compounds that are of high interest for the
chemical, pharmaceutical, and agrochemical industries, among others. Monooxygenases …

Certain strains of root-colonizing fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. produce phenazines, a
class of antifungal metabolites that can provide protection against various soilborne root …

Background Production of l-tyrosine is gaining grounds as the market size of 3, 4-
dihydroxyphenyl-l-alanine (l-DOPA) is expected to increase due to increasing cases of …