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- Rhodococcus abstract "Rhodococcus is a genus of aerobic, nonsporulating, nonmotile Gram-positive bacteria closely related to Mycobacteria and Corynebacteria. While a few species are pathogenic, most are benign and have been found to thrive in a broad range of environments, including soil, water, and eukaryotic cells. Fully sequenced in October 2006, the genome is known to be 9.7 megabasepairs long and 67% G/C.Strains of Rhodococcus are applicably important owing to their ability to catabolize a wide range of compounds and produce bioactive steroids, acrylamide, and acrylic acid, and their involvement in fossil fuel biodesulfurization. This genetic and catabolic diversity is not only due to the large bacterial chromosome, but also to the presence of three large linear plasmids. Rhodococcus is also an experimentally advantageous system owing to a relatively fast growth rate and simple developmental cycle. However, as it stands now, Rhodococcus is not well characterized.Another important application of Rhodococcus comes from bioconversion, using biological systems to convert cheap starting material into more valuable compounds. This use of Rhodococcus is borne out of its ability to metabolize harmful environmental pollutants, such as toluene, naphthalene, herbicides, and PCBs. Rhodococci typically metabolize aromatic substrates by first oxygenating the aromatic ring to form a diol (two alcohol groups). Then, the ring is cleaved with intra/extradiol mechanisms, opening the ring and exposing the substrate to further metabolism. Since the chemistry here is very stereospecific, the diols are created with predictable chirality. While controlling the chirality of chemical reaction presents a significant challenge for synthetic chemists, biological processes can be used instead to faithfully produce chiral molecules in cases where direct chemical synthesis is infeasible or inefficient. An example of this is the use of Rhodococcus to produce indene, a precursor to the AIDS drug indinavir, a protease inhibitor, and containing two of the five chiral centers needed in the complex.".
- Rhodococcus family Nocardiaceae.
- Rhodococcus kingdom Bacteria.
- Rhodococcus order Actinomycetales.
- Rhodococcus order Corynebacterineae.
- Rhodococcus phylum Actinobacteria.
- Rhodococcus thumbnail Rhodococcus_species.jpg?width=300.
- Rhodococcus wikiPageExternalLink taxonomyhome.html.
- Rhodococcus wikiPageID "8157140".
- Rhodococcus wikiPageRevisionID "599606474".
- Rhodococcus familia Nocardiaceae.
- Rhodococcus genus "Rhodococcus".
- Rhodococcus genusAuthority "Zopf 1891".
- Rhodococcus hasPhotoCollection Rhodococcus.
- Rhodococcus imageCaption "Rhodococcus sp.".
- Rhodococcus name "Rhodococcus".
- Rhodococcus ordo Actinomycetales.
- Rhodococcus phylum Actinobacteria.
- Rhodococcus regnum Bacteria.
- Rhodococcus subordo Corynebacterineae.
- Rhodococcus subject Category:Corynebacterineae.
- Rhodococcus type Species.
- Rhodococcus type Organism.
- Rhodococcus comment "Rhodococcus is a genus of aerobic, nonsporulating, nonmotile Gram-positive bacteria closely related to Mycobacteria and Corynebacteria. While a few species are pathogenic, most are benign and have been found to thrive in a broad range of environments, including soil, water, and eukaryotic cells.".
- Rhodococcus label "Rhodococcus".
- Rhodococcus label "Rhodococcus".
- Rhodococcus label "Rhodococcus".
- Rhodococcus label "Rhodococcus".
- Rhodococcus sameAs Rhodococcus.
- Rhodococcus sameAs Rhodococcus.
- Rhodococcus sameAs Rhodococcus.
- Rhodococcus sameAs m.026tn9_.
- Rhodococcus sameAs Q288311.
- Rhodococcus sameAs Q288311.
- Rhodococcus wasDerivedFrom Rhodococcus?oldid=599606474.
- Rhodococcus depiction Rhodococcus_species.jpg.
- Rhodococcus isPrimaryTopicOf Rhodococcus.
- Rhodococcus name "Rhodococcus".