Isolation and characterization of phenanthrene-degrading Sphingomonas paucimobilis strain ZX4

Autor: Xue-jun Duan, Ying Xia, Yang-fang Ye, Ji Liu, Zhenmei Lv, Gang Rao, Hang Min
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Biodegradation. 16:393-402
ISSN: 1572-9729
0923-9820
DOI: 10.1007/s10532-004-2412-7
Popis: Phenanthrene-degrading bacterium strain ZX4 was isolated from an oil-contaminated soil, and identified as Sphingomonaspaucimobilis based on 16S rDNA sequence, cellular fatty acid composition, mol% G + C and Biolog-GN tests. Besides phenanthrene, strain ZX4 could also utilize naphthalene, fluorene and other aromatic compounds. The growth on salicylic acid and catechol showed that the strain degraded phenanthrene via salicylate pathway, while the assay of catechol 2, 3-dioxygenase revealed catechol could be metabolized through meta-cleavage pathway. Three genes, including two of meta-cleavage operon genes and one of GST encoding gene were obtained. The order of genes arrangement was similar to S-type meta-pathway operons. The phylogenetic trees based on 16S rDNA sequence and meta-pathway gene both revealed that strain ZX4 is clustered with strains from genus Sphingomonas.
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