Title: The importance of microbial adaptation in the degradation of BTX
Abstract: Abstract A microorganism which is capable of degrading benzene, toluene and m-xylene, degraded benzene and toluene better when adapted to benzene compared to the cell adapted to toluene. When m-xylene was fed with benzene or the cell was adapted to benzene, the microorganism also degraded m-xylene better. These phenomena were discussed in terms of intracellular enzyme induction. Adapted to benzene, the cell induced more catechol 1,2-dioxygenase than the toluene-adapted cell did, and this led to rapid degradation of benzene, toluene and m-xylene.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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