Influence of readily metabolizable carbon on pentachlorophenol metabolism by a pentachlorophenol-degrading Flavobacterium sp

Degradation of pentachlorophenol by polyurethane-immobilized Flavobacterium cells.

Polyurethane-immobilized Flavobacterium cells (ATCC 39723) degraded pentachlorophenol (PCP) at initial concentrations as high as 300 mg liter-1. The reversible binding of PCP to the polyurethane was shown to be important in the protection of the cells from inhibition of PCP degradation. The degradation activity of the bacteria was monitored for 150 days in semicontinuous batch reactors. The deg...

BIODEGRADATION AND DECHLORINATION OF PENTACHLOROPHENOL WITH A PENTACHLOROPHENOL DEGRADING BACTERIUM Sphingomonas Chlorophenolica

Pentachlorophenol (PCP) has long been used as a wood preservative. Because of the adverse environmental effects of PCP, it has widely contaminated soil and groundwater. In treating PCP, a number of bacteria have been isolated from the environment and applied to bioremediate contaminated areas. However, there is some controversy about the efficiency of PCP removal. This controversy originates in...

Isolation and characterization of Flavobacterium strains that degrade pentachlorophenol.

Bacteria able to mineralize 100 to 200 ppm of pentachlorophenol (PCP) were isolated by selective enrichment from PCP-contaminated soils from three geographic areas of Minnesota. Although differing somewhat in their responses to various biochemical and biophysical tests, all strains were assigned to the genus Flavobacterium. Five representative strains were examined in detail. All strains metabo...

Escherichia coli . pentachlorophenol - 4 - monooxygenase gene in the Flavobacterium Cloning

Effect of pentachlorophenol on hepatic glycogen metabolism in rats.

Pentachlorophenol (PCP) is widely used as a biocide, although, its usage is limited to restricted regions in Japan because of its strong toxicity to fishes. With regard to the biochemical aspects of PCP toxicity, Weinbach1) found that PCP inhibited oxidative phosphorylation in vitro and postulated that the inhibition was at least partly responsible for the toxic effects of PCP. Since then, bioc...