FIG 3.

(a) Proposed novel degradation pathway of styrene in Gordonia rubripertincta CWB2 (see the text for details). (b) Proposed phenylacetic acid degradation pathway of Gordonia rubripertincta CWB2. The genes of the involved enzymes are present on the genome (cluster S4) and upregulated on the transcriptome and the proteins on the proteome level, respectively (see Table 1). Starting from the product of the upper degradation pathway, phenylacetic acid, strain CWB2, is able to metabolize styrene to acetyl-CoA or succinyl-CoA. (Adapted with permission from reference 68.)