University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Molecular and Genetic Relationships of Aromatic Metabolic Plasmids in Pseudomonads
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis thesis elucidates the similarities among the pseudomonad metabolic plasmids required for growth on the substrates naphthalene, NAH, salicylate, SAL, xylene and toluene, XYL and TOL. Naphthalene and xylene dissimilation pass through salicylate and toluate as intermediates to converge at catechol or its methylated derivative. Catechol is further dissimilated, through the (alpha)-keto acid pathway (meta cleavage), to acetaldehyde and pyruvate which enter the tricarboxylic acid cycle. The plasmids are large, 40-75 megadaltons (Md) {60-107 kilobases (Kb)}, and encode, in addition to the aromatic growth phenotypes, self-fertility for conjugal transfer and SAL and TOL also for the mobilization of chromosomal DNA. The plasmids belong to the P-9 incompatability group.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Biochemistry
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Farrell, Roberta Lee
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8017932
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/67395