| acetonitrile degradation under haloalkaline conditions by natronocella acetinitrilica gen. nov., sp. nov. | nitriles are important environmental compounds, both as natural products and industrial pollutants. until now, there have been no data on the possibility of microbial nitrile degradation at high ph/salt conditions. acetonitrile (ch(3)c(triple bond)n) is the simplest organic nitrile. here, evidence is provided of microbial utilization of acetonitrile as a carbon, energy and nitrogen source at extremely high ph and moderate salinity. positive enrichment cultures with acetonitrile at ph 10 and salt ... | 2007 | 17379725 |
| plasticicumulans acidivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a polyhydroxyalkanoate-accumulating gammaproteobacterium from a sequencing-batch bioreactor. | here we describe a novel bacterium, strain tud-yj37(t), which can accumulate more than 85 wt% of polyhydroxybutyrate (phb). the bacterium was isolated from a mixed-culture bioreactor by using a 'feast-famine' regime and its properties were characterized. phylogenetic analysis based on full 16s rdna gene sequences reveals that the isolate is a member of the gammaproteobacteria, forming an independent deep phylogenetic lineage. it is most closely related to members of the genera methylocaldum, met ... | 2010 | 20971833 |