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Rational Construction of Bacterial Strains with New/Improved Catabolic Capabilities for the Efficient Breakdown of Environmental Pollutants

Although numerous bacteria capable of degrading environmental pollutants have been isolated, characterized and used in bioremediation processes, many compounds of environmental concern such as PCBs, dioxins, a...

R.-M. Wittich, P. van Dillewijn, J.-L. Ramos in Aerobic Utilization of Hydrocarbons, Oils,… (2019)

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Rational Construction of Bacterial Strains with New/Improved Catabolic Capabilities for the Efficient Breakdown of Environmental Pollutants

Although numerous bacteria capable of degrading environmental pollutants have been isolated, characterized and used in bioremediation processes, many compounds of environmental concern such as PCBs, dioxins, a...

R. -M. Wittich, P. van Dillewijn… in Aerobic Utilization of Hydrocarbons, Oils …

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The Role of Anaerobic Digestion in Algal Biorefineries: Clean Energy Production, Organic Waste Treatment, and Nutrient Loop Closure

This book chapter deals with the production of biogas coupled with the use of waste effluents for microalgae biomass growth. Biogas production through anaerobic digestion of microalgae uses the whole organic c...

J. L. Ramos-Suárez, N. Carreras Arroyo… in Algae and Environmental Sustainability (2015)

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Genetics of Accessing and Exploiting Hydrocarbons

Hydrocarbons abound in the environment and microorganisms are often capable of assimilating and degrading these normally recalcitrant molecules. In order to achieve this, bacteria have developed specific adapt...

C. Daniels, T. del Castillo, T. Krell… in Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbio… (2010)

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Microcalorimetry as a General Technique to Characterize Ligand Binding: What Needs to be Considered When Analyzing Hydrocarbons

Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC) is a general technique to characterize binding thermodynamics between two ligands. A single ITC experiment permits the determination of the binding constant, the changes ...

T. Krell, M.-E. Guazzaroni, A. Busch… in Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbio… (2010)

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Rational Construction of Bacterial Strains with New/Improved Catabolic Capabilities for the Efficient Breakdown of Environmental Pollutants

Although numerous bacteria capable of degrading environmental pollutants have been isolated, characterized and used in bioremediation processes, many compounds of environmental concern such as PCBs, dioxins, a...

R. -M. Wittich, P. van Dillewijn… in Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbio… (2010)

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Extrusion Pumps for Hydrocarbons: An Efficient Evolutionary Strategy to Confer Resistance to Hydrocarbons

Efflux pumps of the RND family are primarily involved in the extrusion of hydrocarbons. These pumps, specific to gram-negative bacteria, are composed of three components. Two components are transmembrane prote...

T. Krell, B. Çadýrcý, A. Segura, V. García… in Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbio… (2010)

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Removal of Hydrocarbons and Other Related Chemicals via the Rhizosphere of Plants

Recalcitrant organic toxic chemicals have accumulated for decades as a consequence of industrial activity. The use of plants in bioremediation of soils has been proposed as an attractive strategy however, plan...

J. L. Ramos*, E. Duque, P. van Dillew**… in Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbio… (2010)

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Protocols for the Characterization of Solvent Tolerant Microorganisms: Construction and Characterization of Mutants

A number of microorganisms exhibit the unusual property of being tolerant to high concentrations of organic solvents such as toluene, xylenes, ethylbenzene, 1-octanol, 1-decanol, etc. in the culture medium. Th...

E. Duque, J. de la Torre, V. García, C. Pini… in Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbio… (2010)

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Membrane Composition and Modifications in Response to Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Gram Negative Bacteria

Bacterial cells are surrounded by a cellular envelope composed of the cytoplasmic membrane and the cell wall. The cytoplasmic membrane is a phospholipid bilayer that provides an appropriate matrix for the func...

A. Segura, P. Bernal, C. Pini, T. Krell… in Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbio… (2010)

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Selection and preliminary characterization of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain mineralizing selected isomers in a branchedchain dodecylbenzenesulphonate mixture

A bacterium able to grow at the expense of some isomers in a commercial surfactant preparation consisting of branched-chain dodecylbenzenesulphonate was isolated (W51), and it was identified as a Pseudomonas aeru...

G. Soberón-Chávez, J. Campos, A. Haïdour… in World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechn… (1996)

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Designing bacteria for the degradation of nitro- and chloroaromatic pollutants

D. H. Pieper, K. N. Timmis, J. L. Ramos in Naturwissenschaften (1996)

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Cloning, structure and expression of a pea cDNA clone coding for a photosynthetic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase with some features different from those of the leaf chloroplast enzyme

A positive clone against pea (Pisum sativum L.) chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase; EC 3.1.3.11) antibodies was obtained from a copy DNA (cDNA) library in λgt11. The insert was 1261 nucleotides long,...

J. L. Carrasco, A. Chueca, F. E. Prado, R. Hermoso, J. J. Lázaro, J. L. Ramos… in Planta (1994)

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Fate of Pseudomonas putida after release into lake water mesocosms: Different survival mechanisms in response to environmental conditions

To study the fate of Pseudomonas putida DSM 3931 in an aquatic environment, cultures of the strain were released into lake water mesocosms. P. putida, bearing the TOL-plasmid, was released as a representative xen...

I. Brettar, M.I. Ramos-Gonzalez, J.L. Ramos, M.G. Höfle in Microbial Ecology (1994)

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Gene expression in Pseudomonas

Gene regulation studies in pseudomonad bacteria are mainly restricted to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pseudomonas putida. Constitutive promoters exhibit DNA sequences similar to the σ ⁷⁰-dependent constitutive prom...

J. L. Ramos, S. Marqués in World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology (1993)

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Physical organization of the upper pathway operon promoter of the Pseudomonas TOL plasmid. Sequence and positional requirements for XylR-dependent activation of transcription

The upper pathway operon of the Pseudomonas putida TOL plasmid belongs to the −12/-24 class of promoters. These promoters exhibit three regions critical for regulated transcription, namely, the −12/−24 site for R...

M. A. Abril, J. L. Ramos in Molecular and General Genetics MGG (1993)