aromatic compound degradation

traitmech:000130 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A metabolism in which an organism catabolizes an aromatic compound, whether or not that compound is a hydrocarbon.

Trait evidence (1)

DOI:10.3390/ijerph6010278
bacterial degradation pathways of selected aromatic compounds

Seo et al. review bacterial pathways for degradation of aromatic compounds.

Provenance

Identifier source: TraitMech local identifier
Definition source: DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

Parent traits (1)

metabolism METPO:1000060

Children (1)

aromatic hydrocarbon degradation traitmech:000129

Synonyms (1)

aromatic_compound_degradation RELATED_SYNONYM · DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Curation history

2026-09-08T00:00:00Z · PROPOSED_FROM_RESEARCH · codex
Proposed a DOI-backed FAPROTAX metabolic capability from proposals/metpo_traitmech_v11 after repository-wide duplicate review.