dc.contributor.author | De, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ramaiah, N. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sarkar, A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-04-13T05:17:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-04-13T05:17:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.identifier.citation | World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol., vol.22(12), 1321-1327p. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/577 | |
dc.description.abstract | Hitherto, aerobic degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) has been reported to be limited to the less chlorinated biphenyls. A marine mercury-resistant bacterium, Pseudomonas CH07 (NRRL B-30604) which was capable of degrading a variety of highly chlorinated congeners of PCBs from the technical mixture Clophen A-50 is reported. Of the two most toxic coplanar PCBs present in Clophen A-50, one coplanar pentachloro congener CB-126 and one toxic sterically hindered heptachloro congener CB-181 were found to be degraded completely and the other coplanar tetrachloro congener CB-77 was degraded by more than 40% within 40 h by this microorganism. The apparent absence of bphC in this bacterium leads to the proposal of a different mechanism for degradation of PCBs. | |
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dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Springer | |
dc.rights | An edited version of this paper was published by Springer. Copyright [2006] Springer | |
dc.subject | Aerobic degradation | |
dc.subject | Pseudomonas CH07 | |
dc.title | Aerobic degradation of highly chlorinated polychlorobiphenyls by a marine bacterium, Pseudomonas CH07 | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |