Rhodococcus FMF is a gram-positive bacterium isolated for the first time from soil samples of Tabriz refinery in Iran. This microorganism is able to catabolize dibenzothiophene to 2-hydroxybiphenyl and inorganic sulfur without the destruction of carbon-carbon bonds. Three structural genes, dszA, dszB, and dszC have been characterized and shown to be responsible for this phenotype. In this work,...

The success of the Human Genome Project (HGP) has provided a blueprint for the approximately 20,000 gene-encoded proteins potentially active in all of the hundreds of cell types that make up the human body. Yet we still have limited knowledge about a majority of the gene-encoded proteins which are the “building blocks of life” and “cellular machinery”. It is estimated that for nearly half of th...

fusarium head blight (fhb) caused by fusarium graminearum is a serious disease of wheat (triticum aestivum l.), through which grain quality losses are induced by fungal trichotecene mycotoxins such as deoxynivalenol (don). a class of plasma membrane localized abc transporter proteins related to the yeast pdr5 (pleiotropic drug resistance5) efflux pump seems to be responsible for partial resista...