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SUBMITTER: Mehboob F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2690828 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mehboob Farrakh F Junca Howard H Schraa Gosse G Stams Alfons J M AJ
Applied microbiology and biotechnology 20090408 4
Microbial (per)chlorate reduction is a unique process in which molecular oxygen is formed during the dismutation of chlorite. The oxygen thus formed may be used to degrade hydrocarbons by means of oxygenases under seemingly anoxic conditions. Up to now, no bacterium has been described that grows on aliphatic hydrocarbons with chlorate. Here, we report that Pseudomonas chloritidismutans AW-1(T) grows on n-alkanes (ranging from C7 until C12) with chlorate as electron acceptor. Strain AW-1(T) also ...[more]