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dc.contributor.authorDe, J.
dc.contributor.authorRamaiah, N.
dc.contributor.authorSarkar, A.
dc.date.accessioned2007-04-13T05:17:15Z
dc.date.available2007-04-13T05:17:15Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationWorld J. Microbiol. Biotechnol., vol.22(12), 1321-1327p.
dc.identifier.urihttp://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/577
dc.description.abstractHitherto, 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.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rightsAn edited version of this paper was published by Springer. Copyright [2006] Springer
dc.subjectAerobic degradation
dc.subjectPseudomonas CH07
dc.titleAerobic degradation of highly chlorinated polychlorobiphenyls by a marine bacterium, Pseudomonas CH07
dc.typeJournal Article


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