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Sometimes you just want to know a specific fact, like, how cold is it going to be when I step off the plane in Calgary? At other times, you need to do some heavy lifting. Let’s say, for example, that you are beginning to research biological desulfurization … specifically, the use of rhodoccus to treat dibenzothiophene.

This calls for a literature search, to see the paths other researchers have followed. You could do a simple Google® search, but your results will be more targeted using Scholar. Below, as an example, is the first page of the 1190 search results using the search phrase …

rhodococcus dibenzothiophene

I also used the “Scholar preferences” option to limit the results to English language publications,

First page of the 1190 search results on the phrase rhodococcus dibenzothiophene
Selective desulfurization of dibenzothiophene by Rhodococcus erythropolis D-1
nih.gov [PDF]
Y Izumi, T Ohshiro, H Ogino, Y Hine, M … - Applied and …, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
A dibenzothiophene (DBT)-degrading bacterium, Rhodococcus erythropolis D-1, which utilized
DBT as a sole source of sulfur, was isolated from soil. DBT was metabolized to 2-hydroxybiphenyl
(2-HBP) by the strain, and 2-HBP was almost stoichiometrically accumulated as the dead- ...
Cited by 190 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions

… region encoding the dibenzothiophene desulfurization operon of Rhodococcus sp. …
nih.gov [PDF]
CS Piddington, BR Kovacevich, J … - Applied and …, 1995 - aem.highwire.org
Dibenzothiophene (DBT), a model compound for sulfur-containing organic molecules found
in fossil fuels, can be desulfurized to 2-hydroxybiphenyl (2-HBP) by Rhodococcus sp. strain
IGTS8. Complementation of a desulfurization (dsz) mutant provided the genes from ...
Cited by 132 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions

… in specific desulfurization of dibenzothiophene by Rhodococcus sp. strain IGTS8
nih.gov [PDF]
SA Denome, ES Olson, KD Young - Applied and environmental …, 1993 - Am Soc Microbiol
... The gram-positive bacterium Rhodococcus sp. strain IGTS8 is able to remove sulfur from certain
aromatic compounds without breaking carbon-carbon bonds. In particular, sulfur is removed from
dibenzothiophene (DBT) to give the final product, 2-hydroxybiphenyl. A genomic ...
Cited by 124 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions

… of the metabolic pathway for dibenzothiophene desulphurization by Rhodococcus …
sgmjournals.org [PDF]
C Oldfield, O Pogrebinsky, J Simmonds, ES … - …, 1997 - Soc General Microbiol
Christopher Oldfield,'t Olga Pogrebinsky,' Julie Simmonds,' Edwin 5. Olson2 and Charles F. Kulpa3
... Author for correspondence: Christopher Oldfield. Tel: +44 131 455 2217. Fax: +44 131 455
2291. e-mail: c.oldfield@napier.ac.uk ... 1 Energy Biosystems Corporation, 4200 ...
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… of dibenzothiophene by a cell-free system of Rhodococcus erythropolis D-1

T Ohshiro, Y Hine, Y Izumi - FEMS Microbiology Letters, 1994 - interscience.wiley.com
Abstract The enzymatic desulfurization of dibenzothiophene (DBT) to 2-hydroxybiphenyl
(2-HBP) was detected in extracts of Rhodococcus erythropolis D-1 grown on DBT as a sole source
of sulfur. In the dialyzed cell-free extracts, NADH was absolutely required for the activity. ...
Cited by 54 - Related articles - All 2 versions

… dibenzothiophenes from a hydrodesulfurized middle distillate by Rhodococcus …
nih.gov [HTML]
BR Folsom, DR Schieche, PM DiGrazia, J … - Applied and …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
Rhodococcus erythropolis I-19, containing multiple copies of key dsz genes, was used to desulfurize
alkylated dibenzothiophenes (Cx-DBTs) found in a hydrodesulfurized middle-distillate petroleum
(MD 1850). Initial desulfurization rates of dibenzothiophene (DBT) and MD 1850 by I-19 ...
Cited by 68 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions

… of dibenzothiophene derivatives by whole cells of Rhodococcus erythropolis H-2

T Ohshiro, T Hirata, Y Izumi - FEMS Microbiology Letters, 1996 - interscience.wiley.com
AbstractThe dibenzothiophene desulfurizing bacterium, Rhodococcus erythropolis H-2, could
grow on dibenzothiophene derivatives such as 3,4-benzodibenzothiophene, 2,8-dimethyldibenzothiophene
and 4,6-dimethyldibenzothiophene as sulfur sources. Using whole cells, the structurally ...
Cited by 52 - Related articles - All 3 versions

… of dibenzothiophene degrading enzyme activity of Rhodococcus erythropolis D-1

T Ohshiro, K Suzuki, Y Izumi - Journal of fermentation and bioengineering, 1996 - Elsevier
The regulation of dibenzothiophene (DBT) degrading activity of Rhodococcus erythropolis
D-1 was examined. The enzymatic activity involved in DBT degradation of the strain D-1 was
found in cell-free extracts of cells grown not only with DBT as a sole sulfur source but also ...
Cited by 51 - Related articles - All 7 versions

… of desulfurization of dibenzothiophene by Rhodococcus erythropolis in batch and …
nih.gov [PDF]
P Wang, S Krawiec - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1996 - Am Soc Microbiol
... The DbtS phenotype (which confers the ability to oxidize selectively the sulfur atom of
dibenzothiophene [DBT] or dibenzothiophene sulfone [DBTO 2 ]) of Rhodococcus erythropolis
N1-36 was quantitatively charac- terized in batch and fed-batch cultures. ...
Cited by 51 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions

Molecular mechanisms of biocatalytic desulfurization of fossil fuels

KA Gray, OS Pogrebinsky, GT Mrachko, L Xi, DJ … - Nature …, 1996 - nature.com
... Enzymatic desulfurization of dibenzo-thiophene by a cell-free system of Rhodococcus erythropolis
D-1. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. ... Involvement of flavin coenzyme in dibenzothiophene degrading enzyme
system from Rhodococcus erythropolis D-1. Biosci. Biotech. ...
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