Biochemical and genetic characterization of benzylsuccinate synthase from Thauera aromatica: a new glycyl radical enzyme catalysing the first step in anaerobic toluene metabolism
- 1 April 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 28 (3) , 615-628
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00826.x
Abstract
Toluene is anoxically degraded to CO2 by the denitrifying bacterium Thauera aromatica. The initial reaction in this pathway is the addition of fumarate to the methyl group of toluene, yielding benzyl...Keywords
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