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SUBMITTER: Kumari S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5243242 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kumari Smita S Regar Raj Kumar RK Bajaj Abhay A Ch Ratnasekhar R Satyanarayana Gubbala Naga Venkata GNV Mudiam Mohana Krishna Reddy MKR Manickam Natesan N
Indian journal of microbiology 20160728 1
A polyaromatic hydrocarbon degrading bacterium was isolated from a petroleum contaminated site and designated as <i>Stenotrophomonas</i> sp. strain IITR87. It was found to utilize pyrene, phenanthrene and benzo(a)pyrene as sole carbon source, but not anthracene, chrysene and fluoranthene. Gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy analysis resulted in identification of pyrene metabolites namely monohydroxypyrene, 4-oxa-pyrene-5-one, dimethoxypyrene and monohydroxyphenanthrene. Southern hybridizati ...[more]