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The β-ketoadipate pathway (Fig. 1) is widely distributed in the microbial world (Stanier et al., 1966; Ornston and Ornston, 1972; Stanier and Ornston, 1973; Cain, 1980; Parke and Ornston, 1984) and was one of the first subjects of physiological investigation of enzyme induction in bacteria (Stanier, 1951). Enzymes associated with the pathway proved to be inducible in fluorescent Pseudomonas species, and later studies revealed that mechanisms of transcriptional control were conserved in this biological group (Ornston, 1966; Kemp and Hegeman, 1968). Representatives of Acinetobacter (formerly Moraxella) share induction patterns unlike those found in Pseudomonas (Ornston, 1966; Canovas and Stanier, 1967; Canovas et al., 1967; Stanier and Ornston, 1973). Investigation of the genetic basis for the different forms of transcriptional regulation exercised in the two genera has given insight into processes underlying their evolutionary divergence.
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Ornston, L.N., Neidle, E.L. (1991). Evolution of Genes for the β-Ketoadipate Pathway in Acinetobacter Calcoaceticus . In: Towner, K.J., Bergogne-Bérézin, E., Fewson, C.A. (eds) The Biology of Acinetobacter . Federation of European Microbiological Societies Symposium Series, vol 57. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3553-3_15
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