UM-BBD -- University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
What you can do:
Search for curated information on microbial catabolism and related biotransformations, primarily for environmental pollutants.
Highlights:
- This database contains information on microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways for primarily xenobiotic, chemical compounds.
- Individual reactions and metabolic pathways are presented with information on the starting and intermediate chemical compounds, the organisms that transform the compounds, the enzymes, and the genes.
- It now contains information on almost 1200 compounds, over 800 enzymes, almost 1300 reactions and almost 500 microorganism entries.
- It includes a Biochemical Periodic Table (UM-BPT) and a rule-based Pathway Prediction System (UM-PPS) that predicts plausible pathways for microbial degradation of organic compounds.
- It contains 260 biotransformation rules derived from reactions found in the UM-BBD and scientific literature.
- UM-BBD compound data are now contributed to PubChem and ChemSpider, the public chemical databases.
Keywords:
- biodegradative microbes
- biodegradative bacteria
- hazardous substances
- hazardous materials
- toxic compounds
- biodegradation
- biocatalysis
- biotransformation
- bioremediation
- pollutants
- microbial catabolisms
- metabolic pathways
- Pathway Prediction tool
- Biochemical Periodic Tables
- enzymes
- xenobiotics
- naphthalene
- toluene dioxygenase
- microorganisms
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This record last updated: 04-18-2014