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| Bacterial propane metabolism is thought to include acetone as an intermediate. Rhodococcus rhodochrous strain B-276 has been shown to express an acetone carboxylase enzyme when grown on acetone. It has been previously demonstrated using SDS-PAGE that acetone-grown R. rhodochrous strain B-276 expresses the 74-kDa and 85-kDa acetone carboxylase peptides, whereas the propane-grown strain does not. Our study has shown that the propane-grown R. rhodochrous strain B-276 degrades acetone in the presence of transcriptional and translational inactivators. Expansion of the bacterial acetone metabolic pathway infers the enzyme expressed by propane-grown R. rhodochrous strain B-276 to be an acetone monooxygenase. |
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Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Biochemistry
2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, March 26, 2007 Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Riverside Center, Poster
Division of Chemical Education |