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Evidence for 4-chlorobenzoic acid dehalogenation mediated by plasmids related to pSS50
A C Layton1, J Sanseverino, W Wallace
1Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37932.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The biodegradation of 4-chlorobiphenyl usually proceeds through the intermediate 4-chlorobenzoate. Few bacterial strains can degrade 4-chlorobiphenyl to 4-chlorobenzoate and 4-chlorobenzoate to CO2. This study demonstrates that the 4-chlorobiphenyl-degrading Alcaligenes sp. strain ALP83 can degrade 4-chlorobenzoate to 4-hydroxybenzoate. The dehalogenase activity is correlated with a 10-kb fragment carried on plasmid pSS70.