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- Title
Degradation of pyridine and 4-methylpyridine by Gordonia terrea IIPN1.
- Authors
Stobdan, Tsering; Sinha, Amita; Pal Singh, Ravindra; Adhikari, Dilip Kumar
- Abstract
Gordonia terrea IIPN1 was isolated and characterized from soils collected at petroleum drilling sites. The strain was able to catabolize pyridine and 4-methylpyridine as sole carbon and nitrogen source. The strain failed to catabolize other pyridine derivatives. Growing cells completely degraded 30 mM of pyridine in 120 h with growth yield of 0.29 g g-1. Resting Cells grown on 5 mM pyridine degraded 4-methylpyridine without a lag time and vice versa. Supplementary carbon and nitrogen source did not significantly change the specific growth rate and degradation rate by the resting cells.
- Subjects
BIODEGRADATION; FOREST litter decomposition; BIODEGRADATION of plant litter; FRANKLINIA; SOILS; PETROLEUM; NITROGEN; CARBON; PYRIDINE
- Publication
Biodegradation, 2008, Vol 19, Issue 4, p481
- ISSN
0923-9820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10532-007-9152-4