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SUBMITTER: Edalli VA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5082039 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Edalli Vijayalakshmi A VA Mulla Sikandar I SI Eqani Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah SA Mahadevan Gurumurthy D GD Sharma Rohit R Shouche Yogesh Y Kamanavalli Chandrappa M CM
3 Biotech 20161026 2
p-Cresol is an environmental pollutant due to its vast use, toxicity and persistence, nevertheless, its degradation in an enzyme is unclear. In this study, we used Pleurotus sp. isolate VLECK02 polyphenol oxidase (PPO) for the determination of p-cresol degradation. On the basis of UV, FT-IR and chromatographic (HPLC and GC-MS) analysis, 4-methylcatechol was identified as the main metabolite of p-cresol catabolism. In addition, batch and semi-continuous degradation of p-cresol (10 and 20 mM) were ...[more]