NEW PEPTIDE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING AROMATIC COMPOUND WHOSE ALKYL GROUP IS HYDROXYLATED AND METHOD FOR PURIFYING ENVIRONMENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for synthesizing an industrially useful substance, comprising using a peptide having a function for imparting an ability to introduce a hydroxyl group into an alkyl group on an aromatic ring to an oxygenase, and to provide a means for purifying environmental poisons.

SOLUTION: The method for producing the aromatic compound whose alkyl group is hydroxylated comprises using a new gene obtained from Rhodococcus sp. TKN14 strain.

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