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SUBMITTER: Takagi K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2704805 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Takagi Kazuhiro K Iwasaki Akio A Kamei Ichiro I Satsuma Koji K Yoshioka Yuichi Y Harada Naoki N
Applied and environmental microbiology 20090508 13
A novel aerobic pentachloronitrobenzene-degrading bacterium, Nocardioides sp. strain PD653, was isolated from an enrichment culture in a soil-charcoal perfusion system. The bacterium also degraded hexachlorobenzene, a highly recalcitrant environmental pollutant, accompanying the generation of chloride ions. Liberation of (14)CO(2) from [U-ring-(14)C]hexachlorobenzene was detected in a culture of the bacterium and indicates that strain PD653 is able to mineralize hexachlorobenzene under aerobic c ...[more]