Biochemistry

Identification of DypB from Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 as a lignin peroxidase

M Ahmad, JN Roberts, EM Hardiman, R Singh…

Index: Ahmad, Mark; Roberts, Joseph N.; Hardiman, Elizabeth M.; Singh, Rahul; Eltis, Lindsay D.; Bugg, Timothy D. H. Biochemistry, 2011 , vol. 50, # 23 p. 5096 - 5107

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Abstract

Rhodococcus jostii RHA1, a polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading soil bacterium whose genome has been sequenced, shows lignin degrading activity in two recently developed spectrophotometric assays. Bioinformatic analysis reveals two unannotated peroxidase genes present in the genome of R. jostii RHA1 with sequence similarity to open reading frames in other lignin-degrading microbes. They are members of the Dyp peroxidase ...