Dr. Miguel A. Providenti

Profile

Academic positionCurrently without academic position
Research fieldsMetabolism, Biochemistry, and Genetics of Microorganisms,Microbial Ecology and Applied Microbiology,General Genetics, Functional Genome Research
Keywordsaromatic biodegradation, microbiology, oxygenases, protein biochemistry, comamonas testosteroni

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityGatineau
InstitutionEnvironment Canada
InstituteNew Substance Division-Biotechnology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Alasdair CookFachbereich Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2000

Programme(s)

2000Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2006Miguel A. Providenti, Jason M. O'Brien, Juergen Ruff, Alasdair M. Cook, Iain B. Lambert: Metabolism of isovanillate, vanillate, and veratrate by Comamonas testosteroni strain BR6020 . In: Journal of Bacteriology, 2006, 3862-3869
2005Joerg Mampel, Miguel A. Providenti, Alasdair M. Cook: Protocatechuate 4,5-dioxygenase from Comamonas testosteroni T-2: biochemical and molecular properties of a new subgroup within class III of extradiol dioxygenases. In: Archives of Microbiology, 2005, 130-139
2001Miguel A. Providenti, Joerg Mampel, Scott MacSween, Alasdair M. Cook, R. Campbell Wyndham: Comamonas testosteroni BR6020 possesses a single genetic locus for extradiol cleavage of protocatechuate. In: Microbiology, 2001, 2157-3541
2001Miguel A. Providenti, R. C. Wyndham: Identification and functional characterization of CbaR, a MarR-like modulator of the cbaABC-encoded chlorobenzoate catabolism pathway. In: Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 2001, 3530-3541