Oxygenation Reactions of Various Tricyclic Fused Aromatic Compounds Using Escherichia coli and Streptomyces lividans Transformants Carrying Several Arene Dioxygenase Genes
compounds), including various tricyclic fused aromatic compounds such as fluorene, dibenzofuran, dibenzothiophene, carbazole, acridene, and phenanthridine, were done using the cells of Escherichia coli transformants expressing several arene dioxygenase genes. E. coli carrying the phenanthrene dioxygenase (phdABCD) genes derivedfrom the marine bacterium Nocardioides sp. strain KP7 converted all of these