Superfund Research Program

Molecular Insight into Dioxin Degradation by Microbes and Microbial Communities

Project Leader: Gerben J. Zylstra (Rutgers University)
Grant Number: P42ES004911
Funding Period: 2013-2021

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Publications

2021

• Almnehlawi HS, Zylstra GJ, Dean RK, Capozzi SL, Rodenburg LA, Fennell DE. 2021. Agromyces and Arthrobacter isolates from surficial sediments of the Passaic River degrade dibenzofuran, dibenzo-p-dioxin and 2-monochlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. Bioremediat J 21:doi:10.1080/10889868.2021.1892027
• Mutter TY, Zylstra GJ. 2021. Differential roles of three different upper pathway meta ring cleavage product hydrolases in the degradation of dibenzo-p-dioxin and dibenzofuran by Sphingomonas wittichii strain RW1. Appl Environ Microbiol 87:doi:10.1128/AEM.01067-21 PMID:34469199 PMCID:PMC8552877
• Mutter TY, Zylstra GJ. 2021. Separate upper pathway ring cleavage dioxygenases are required for growth of Sphingomonas wittichii strain RW1 on dibenzofuran and dibenzo-p-dioxin. Appl Environ Microbiol 87:doi:10.1128/AEM.02464-20 PMID:33741618

2020

• Chai B, Tsoi TV, Sallach JB, Liu C, Landgraf J, Bezdek M, Zylstra GJ, Li H, Johnston CT, Teppen BJ, Cole JR, Boyd SA, Tiedje JM. 2020. Bioavailability of clay-adsorbed dioxin to Sphingomonas wittichii RW1 and its associated genome-wide shifts in gene expression. Sci Total Environ 712:135525. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135525 PMID:32050392

2017

• Ahn E, Choi KY, Kang BS, Zylstra GJ, Kim D, Kim E. 2017. Salicylate degradation by a cold-adapted Pseudomonas sp. Ann Microbiol 67(6):417-424.
• Stedtfeld RD, Stedtfeld TM, Waseem H, Fitschen-Brown M, Guo X, Chai B, Williams MR, Shook T, Logan A, Graham A, Chae J, Sul WJ, VanHouten J, Cole JR, Zylstra GJ, Tiedje JM, Upham BL, Hashsham SA. 2017. Isothermal assay targeting class 1 integrase gene for environmental surveillance of antibiotic resistance markers. J Environ Manage 198:213-220. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.04.079 PMID:28460328

2016

• Boughner LA, Singh P. 2016. Microbial ecology: where are we now?. Postdoc J 4(11):3-17. doi:10.14304/SURYA.JPR.V4N11.2 PMID:27975077 PMCID:PMC5152758
• Chai B, Tsoi TV, Iwai S, Liu C, Fish JA, Gu C, Johnson TA, Zylstra GJ, Teppen BJ, Li H, Hashsham SA, Boyd SA, Cole JR, Tiedje JM. 2016. Sphingomonas wittichii strain RW1 genome-wide gene expression shifts in response to dioxins and clay. PLoS One 11(6):e0157008. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157008 PMID:27309357 PMCID:PMC4911050

2015

• Ambrose KV, Tian Z, Wang Y, Smith J, Zylstra GJ, Huang B, Belanger FC. 2015. Functional characterization of salicylate hydroxylase from the fungal endophyte Epichloe festucae. Sci Rep 5:10939. doi:10.1038/srep10939 PMID:26055188 PMCID:PMC4460724

2014

• Masuda H, Shiwa Y, Yoshikawa H, Zylstra GJ. 2014. Draft genome sequence of the versatile alkane-degrading bacterium Aquabacterium sp. strain NJ1. Genome Announc 2(6):e01271-14. doi:10.1128/genomeA.01271-14 PMID:25477416 PMCID:PMC4256197