4-nitrocatechol and 5-nitroguaiacol degradation by Rhodococcus opacus C6-1 isolated from soil

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Authors	KOTOUČKOVÁ Ludmila NEČA Jiří MORÁVKOVÁ Monika ČECHOVÁ Leona NĚMEC Miroslav
Year of publication	2003
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	The 1st FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists, Abstract Book.
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Microbiology, virology
Keywords	Rhodococcus; 5-nitroguaiacol; 4-nitrocatechol; degradation; automatic spectrophotometry
Description	Degradation of 4-nitrocatechol and 5-nitroguajacol by a Rhodococcus species isolated from soil was reported. Degradation of 4-nitrocatechol is not connected with capability of degrade 4-nitrophenol in the case of the strain C6-1, in contrast to known bacteria degrading 4-nitrocatechol. 4-Nitrocatechol is used as sole source of carbon and nitrogen in concentration up to 0.5 mol.l-1. The yellow colour of substrate allows the using of method of automatic spectrophotometry (BIOSCREEN C) for detailed determination of degradation profile of 4-nitrocatechol. Resting cells experiments were used for determination of basic kinetic parameters of reactions.
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