Gene Structures and Regulation of the Alkane Hydroxylase Complex in <i>Acinetobacter</i> sp. Strain M-1

Abstract

In the long-chain n-alkane degrader Acinetobacter sp. strain M-1, two alkane hydroxylase complexes are switched by controlling the expression of two n-alkane hydroxylase-encoding genes in response to the chain length of n-alkanes, while rubredoxin and rubredoxin ruductase are encoded by a single gene and expressed constitutively.