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Degradation of high concentrations of cresols by Pseudomonas sp. CP4.

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Title Degradation of high concentrations of cresols by Pseudomonas sp. CP4.
 
Creator Aneez Ahamad, P. V.
Kunhi, A. A. M.
 
Subject 05 Industrial Microbiology
 
Description Pseudomonas sp. CP4, a potent phenol-degrading laboratory isolate could mineralize all three isomers of
cresol. This strain readily utilized up to 1.4, 1.1 and 2.2 g/l of o- m- and p-cresol, respectively as the sole
sources of carbon and energy. These are the highest concentrations of cresols reported to be degraded by a
bacterial strain. The rates of degradation of the three isomers were in the order: o- > p- > m-cresol. All
the isomers of cresol were catabolized through a meta-cleavage pathway. Fairly high catechol 2,3-dioxy-
genase (C230) activity against catechol was observed in the cell-free extracts of the culture grown on these
compounds and were in the order: m- > o- > p-cresol.
 
Date 1999
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://ir.cftri.com/2444/1/World%20Journal%20of%20Micro%20%26%20Biotech%201999%2015%282%29%20321.pdf
Aneez Ahamad, P. V. and Kunhi, A. A. M. (1999) Degradation of high concentrations of cresols by Pseudomonas sp. CP4. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 15. pp. 321-323.