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DOI 10.1016/S0168-1656(03)00005-1
Title (Primary) Cometabolic degradation of chlorinated aromatic compounds
Author Jechorek, M.; Wendlandt, K.-D.; Beck, M.
Source Titel Journal of Biotechnology
Year 2003
Department UBT; UBT_alt
Volume 102
Issue 1
Page From 93
Page To 98
Language englisch
Abstract The degradation of chlorobenzene was investigated with the specially chosen strain Methylocystis sp. GB 14 DSM 12955, using 23 ml headspace vials and in a soil column filled with quaternary aquifer material from a depth of 20 m. A long-term experiment was carried out in this column, situated in a mobile test unit at a contaminated location in Bitterfeld (Germany). Groundwater polluted by chlorobenzene was continuously fed through the column, through which a mixture comprising 4% CH4 and 96% air was bubbled. Chlorobenzene was oxidized by up to 80% under pure culture conditions in the model experiments and was completely degraded under the mixed culture conditions of the column experiments. Over a period of 4 months, the stability of the biological system was monitored regularly by analyzing the sMMO activity as well as by classical microbiological and molecular biological methods.
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Jechorek, M., Wendlandt, K.-D., Beck, M. (2003):
Cometabolic degradation of chlorinated aromatic compounds
J. Biotechnol. 102 (1), 93 - 98 10.1016/S0168-1656(03)00005-1