Patent ID: 6858417

Claim:
An isolated DNA fragment containing a portion encoding a toluene monooxygenase, the portion comprising a region encoding a polypeptide TomL having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3, a region encoding a polypeptide TomM having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4, a region encoding a polypeptide TomN having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5, a region encoding a polypeptide TomO having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6, and a region encoding a polypeptide TomP having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 7 of the Sequence Listing, and the regions are aligned in the order of TomL-TomM-TomN-TomO-TomP so that expressed TomL-TomP polypeptides can form an active monooxygenase protein.