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Organophosphonate utilization by the thermophile Geobacillus caldoxylosilyticus T20
Agnieszka Obojska1, Nigel G Ternan, Barbara Lejczak
1Institute of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Wrocław University of Technology, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|March 28, 2002
Abstract:
A strain of Geobacillus caldoxylosilyticus from central heating system water could utilize a number of organophosphonates as the sole phosphorus source for growth at 60 degrees C. During growth on glyphosate, aminomethylphosphonate release to the medium was observed, and in cell extracts, a glyphosate oxidoreductase-type activity, producing stoichiometric amounts of aminomethylphosphonate and glyoxylate from glyphosate, was detectable.