Systems Biology of Aromatic Compound Catabolism in Facultative Anaerobic <i>Aromatoleum aromaticum</i> EbN1 <sup>T</sup>
Patrick Becker, Sarah Kirstein, Daniel Wünsch, Julia Koblitz, Ramona Buschen, Lars Wöhlbrand, Boyke Bunk, Christina Hinrichs, Sabine Kaltenhäuser, Jochen Lehmann, Gesa Martens, Britta Katrin Ripken, S. Alexander Riemer, Philipp Stoltenberg, Daniela Thies, Kathleen Trautwein, Esther Veronika Wenzel, Ida Schomburg, Michael Winklhofer, Dietmar Schomburg, Meina Neumann‐Schaal, Ralf Rabus
Abstract
Aromatic compounds are abundant constituents not only of natural organic matter but also of bulk industrial chemicals and fuel components of environmental concern. Considering the widespread occurrence of redox gradients in the biosphere, facultative anaerobic degradation specialists can be assumed to play a prominent role in the natural mineralization of organic matter and in bioremediation at contaminated sites.