Treadway, S . L ., K . S . Yanagimachi, E . Lankenau, P . A . Lessard, G . Stephanopoulos and A . J . Sinskey . 1999 . Isolation and characterization of indene bioconversion genes from Rhodococcus strain I24.
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"What we've now found is there's a tremendous need for these technologies to handle solid waste, and other kinds of waste, " said Nelson Widell, vice president of Bedminster Bioconversion Corp ., based in Marietta, Georgia.
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Carotenoids with a cyclized, beta-ionone ring can be converted to vitamin A, also known as retinol, by the enzyme Beta-carotene 15, 15'- dioxygenase; however, the bioconversion of gamma-carotene to retinol has not been well-characterized.
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Here, they showed ingestion of beet juice, a nitrate-rich food, by healthy volunteers markedly reduced blood pressure and by disrupting saliva, either by spitting or interrupting the bioconversion of dietary nitrate to nitrite in the mouth with anti-bacterial mouthwash, the chemical reduction of nitrate to nitrite to nitric oxide with an associated decease in blood pressure was abated.
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Another important application of " Rhodococcus " comes from bioconversion, using biological systems to convert cheap starting material into more valuable compounds, such as its ability to metabolize harmful environmental pollutants, including toluene, naphthalene, herbicides, and PCBs . " Rhodococcus " species typically metabolize aromatic substrates by first oxygenating the aromatic ring to form a diol ( two alcohol groups ).
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Different species and / or strains of bifidobacteria may exert a range of beneficial health effects, including the regulation of intestinal microbial homeostasis, the inhibition of pathogens and harmful bacteria that colonize and / or infect the gut mucosa, the modulation of local and systemic immune responses, the repression of procarcinogenic enzymatic activities within the microbiota, the production of vitamins, and the bioconversion of a number of dietary compounds into bioactive molecules.
