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. 2002 Mar;184(6):1733–1742. doi: 10.1128/JB.184.6.1733-1742.2002

TABLE 4.

Growth rates of wild-type and alkB recombinant strains on n-alkanes

Strain	Additional gene^c	Growth rate (h⁻¹) on^a:
Strain	Additional gene^c	C₁₂	C₁₄	C₁₆
P. aeruginosa PAO1		0.036	0.069	0.1
P. fluorescens CHA0		0.019	0.019	0.053
P. putida GPo1^b		0.063	−	−
GPo12(pGEc47ΔB)^b	alkB2 (PAO1)	0.021	0.011	−
	alkB (CHA0)	0.025	0.009	−
	alkB (2295)	0.033	0.010	−
	alkB (H37Rv)	0.077	0.011	−
KOB2Δ1	alkB (GPo1)	0.007	−	−
	alkB1 (PAO1)	0.004	0.019	0.016
	alkB2 (PAO1)	0.033	0.032	0.046
	alkB (CHA0)	0.017	0.029	0.053
	alkB (2295)	0.014	0.050	0.049
	alkB (H37Rv)	0.043	0.041	0.038

^a

C₁₂, n-dodecane; C₁₄, n-tetradecane; C₁₆, n-hexadecane; −, no growth.

^b

Rhamnolipids were added to the GPo1 and GPo12(pGEc47ΔB) cultures.

^c

See Fig. 1 for full name of original host strain.