ReviewMicrobial biotechnology2009
Atrazine biodegradation in the lab and in the field: enzymatic activities and gene regulation.
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- Optimized atrazine biodegradation in Egyptian soils via native bacterial isolates and molecular insights using different statistical methods.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Machine Learning-Guided Synthetic Microbial Communities Enable Functional and Sustainable Degradation of Persistent Environmental Pollutants.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- First Insight into the Natural Attenuation of Emerging Contaminants Using a Metagenomics Approach from Drinking Water Sources in the Free State.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- The interplay of nitrogen sources and viral communities in the biodegradation of atrazine in agricultural soils.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Retracing the Rapid Evolution of an Herbicide-Degrading Enzyme by Protein Engineering.ACS catalysis · 2023Article
- Degradation of Residual Herbicide Atrazine in Agri-Food and Washing Water.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A Path Forward: Promoting Microbial-Based Methods in the Control of Invasive Plant Species.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- The evolving story of AtzT, a periplasmic binding protein.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2019Article
- Characterisation of an efficient atrazine-degrading bacterium,Biotechnology for biofuels · 2018Article
- Comparative genome analysis of the vineyard weed endophyte Pseudomonas viridiflava CDRTc14 showing selective herbicidal activity.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Mechanism of Antiactivation at the Pseudomonas sp. Strain ADP σN-Dependent PatzT Promoter.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2016Article
- Atrazine and its metabolites degradation in mineral salts medium and soil using an enrichment culture.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2016Article
- Potential roles for microbial endophytes in herbicide tolerance in plants.Pest management science · 2016Review
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- Transcriptional organization and regulatory elements of a Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP operon encoding a LysR-type regulator and a putative solute transport system.Journal of bacteriology · 2012Article
- Sugar (ribose), spice (peroxidase) and all things nice (laccase hair-dyes).Microbial biotechnology · 2010Article
- Bioremediation, a broad perspective.Microbial biotechnology · 2009Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Atrazine is an herbicide of the s-triazine family that is used primarily as a nitrogen source by degrading microorganisms. While many catabolic pathways for xenobiotics are subjected to catabolic repression by preferential carbon sources, atrazine utilization is repressed in the presence of preferential nitrogen sources. This phenomenon appears to restrict atrazine elimination in nitrogen-fertilized soils by indigenous organisms or in bioaugmentation approaches. The mechanisms of nitrogen control have been investigated in the model strain Pseudomonas sp. ADP. Expression of atzA, atzB ad atzC, involved in the conversion of atrazine in cyanuric acid, is constitutive. The atzDEF operon, encoding the enzymes responsible for cyanuric acid mineralization, is a target for general nitrogen control. Regulation of atzDEF involves a complex interplay between the global regulatory elements of general nitrogen control and the pathway-specific LysR-type regulator AtzR. In addition, indirect evidence suggests that atrazine transport may also be a target for nitrogen regulation in this strain. The knowledge about regulatory mechanisms may allow the design of rational bioremediation strategies such as biostimulation using carbon sources or the use of mutant strains impaired in the assimilation of nitrogen sources for bioaugmentation.
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