A wastewater from a chemical company (abbreviated as WC) containing approximately 5000 mg NH4-N/L ammonium and a slight amount of BOD was treated with Alcaligenes faecalis No.4 (No.4),which is capable of heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification. The repeatedbatch operation was conducted at 30°C for 900 h at controlled dissolved oxygen concentration (DO) of 2-3 mg/L in the presenc...

A rhizobacterium isolated from groundnut rhizosphere and identified as Alcaligenes faecalis BCCM 2374 produced siderophore during 24 h submerged growth in modified succinic acid medium (SM) prepared in tap water without deferration. For the optimized production of siderophore in the presence of starch and sucrose, the optimum parameters found were as follows: slight acidic pH (5.5), 35C tempera...

Alcaligenes faecalis AE122 that used poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) as a sole source of carbon was newly isolated from a coastal seawater sample. The strain required seawater for growth on PHB as well as in a nutrient broth, in which seawater could be replaced by an appropriate concentration of NaCl. PHB depolymerase was purified to homogeneity from the culture supernatant of A. faecalis AE122 b...

The present study was designed to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of leaf of Pithecellobium dulce against twenty pathogenic microorganisms. Leaf extracts of P. dulce were prepared in distilled water and organic solvents, viz., benzene, chloroform, acetone and methanol in increasing and decreasing order of solvent polarity. Agar well diffusion technique was used to assess the antimicrobial a...

A soil amoeba (Hartmannella glebae), when grown in conjunction with Enterobacter aerogenes and Alcaligenes faecalis, produced two enzymes. Enzyme I was purified by gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 and chromatography on diethylaminoethyl-cellulose. It is a basic protein. The analysis of the enzymic digest of the cell walls of Micrococcus lysodeikticus after reduction and acid hydrolysis showed t...

Alcaligenes faecalis, resistant to the toxic effects of 0.01 M sodium arsenite, was isolated from raw sewage and shown to be capable of oxidizing arsenite to arsenate. When the organisms were grown in chemically defined medium, this conversion was due to the appearance at stationary phase of an intracellular, oxygen-sensitive, inducible enzyme and/or component of the electron transport system; ...

Alcaligenes faecalis No. 4 (No. 4), which conducts heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification, removed 800 mg-N/l of highstrength ammonium and 100 mg-P/l of phosphorus, both in a synthetic medium and in an anaerobically digested municipal sludge solution. The estimated N2 conversion ratio from ammonium-nitrogen was approximately 50%. When the initial phosphorus concentration was re...

Except for the oxidation of erythritol to L-erythrulose by Acetobacter (Bertrand, 1900) little is known of the metabolism of tetroses in microorganisms. Barker and Lipmann (1949) found erythritol to be esterified and oxidized by Propionibacterium pentosaceum, although a tetrose intermediate was not identified. The utilization of D-erythrose by mammalian liver slices has been reported by Abraham...