Degradation of phenol via phenylphosphate and carboxylation to 4-hydroxybenzoate by a newly isolated strain of the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfobacterium anilini

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4248-4253

  Ahn, Young Beom ^a,b,c   Chae, Jong Chan ^a,d   Zylstra, Gerben J ^a,b   Häggblom, Max M ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; 2-FLUOROBENZOATE; 2-FLUOROPHENOL; ANAEROBIC DEGRADATION; BROMOPHENOL; DEGRADATION OF PHENOLS; DIHYDROXYBENZOATE; DNA HOMOLOGY; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; INDUCIBLE EXPRESSION; ISOLATED STRAINS; PHENOL DEGRADATION; PHENOL-DEGRADING BACTERIA; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PYRUVATE; REACTION PATHWAYS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; SULFATE REDUCING; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SYNTHASE GENE;

CARBOXYLATION; DEGRADATION; GLUCOSE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHENOLS;

BIODEGRADATION;

2 FLUOROBENZOIC ACID; 2 FLUOROPHENOL; 3 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID; 4 CYANOPHENOL; 4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID; 4 HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ACETIC ACID; ANILINE; ANTHRANILIC ACID; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BENZOIC ACID; BENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BETA RESORCYLIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; CITRIC ACID; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; PHENOL; PHENYL PHOSPHATE; PROPIONIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; RNA 16S; SALICYLIC ACID; SUCCINIC ACID; SULFATE; SULFITE; THIOSULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIODEGRADATION; ELECTRON; ESTER; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; PHENOL; PHOSPHATE; PHYLOGENETICS; RNA; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DESULFOBACTERIUM ANILINI; DESULFOBACTERIUM ANILINI AK1; DESULFOBACTERIUM ANILINI ANI1; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESTUARY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HALOGENATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PPSA GENE; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ACETATES; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARABENS; PHENOL; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; PHYLOGENY; PYRUVIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBACTERIUM ANILINI;

EID: 67649615960     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00203-09     Document Type: Article

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