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Pseudomonas sp. N31 was isolated from soil using 3-nitrophenol and succinate as sole source of nitrogen and carbon respectively. The strain expresses a nitrophenol oxygenase and can use either 2-nitrophenol or 4-chloro-2-nitrophenol as a source of nitrogen, eliminating nitrite, and accumulating catechol and 4-chlorocatechol, respectively. The catechols were not degraded further. Strains which are able to utilize 4-chloro-2-nitrophenol as a sole source of carbon and nitrogen were constructed by transfer of the haloaromatic degrading sequences from either Pseudomonas sp. B13 or Alcaligenes eutrophus JMP134 (pJP4) to strain N31. Transconjugant strains constructed using JMP134 as the donor strain grew on 3-chlorobenzoate but not on 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate. This was due to the non-induction of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate monooxygenase and 2,4-dichlorophenol hydroxylase. Transfer of the plasmid from the 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate negative transconjugant strains to a cured strain of JMP134 resulted in strains which also had the same phenotype. This indicates that a mutation has occurred in pJP4 to prevent the expression of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate monooxygenase and 2,4-dichlorophenol hydroxylase.
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Bruhn, C., Bayly, R.C. & Knackmuss, H.J. The in vivo construction of 4-chloro-2-nitrophenol assimilatory bacteria. Arch. Microbiol. 150, 171–177 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425158
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