Figure 1 - Engineering bacterial strains through the chromosomal insertion of the chlorocatechol catabolism tfdICDEF gene cluster, to improve degradation of typical bleached Kraft pulp mill effluent pollutants

Figure 1. Chloroaromatic catabolism in R. eutropha JMP134 (pJP4).

(a) organisation of tfd genes in pJP4. Not to scale.
(b) tfd genes for the ortho ring-cleavage chlorocatechol pathway.
(c) Catabolic complementation for strains producing chlorocatechols from monochloroaromatic compounds.