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SUBMITTER: Yagi O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC91628 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yagi O O Hashimoto A A Iwasaki K K Nakajima M M
Applied and environmental microbiology 19991001 10
Two strains of 1,1,1-trichloroethane (TCA)-degrading bacteria, TA5 and TA27, were isolated from soil and identified as Mycobacterium spp. Strains TA5 and TA27 could degrade 25 and 75 mg. liter of TCA(-1) cometabolically in the presence of ethane as a carbon source, respectively. The compound 2,2,2-trichloroethanol was produced as a metabolite of the degradation process. ...[more]