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Polymerization of pentachlorophenol and ferulic acid by fungal extracellular lignin-degrading enzymes
C Rüttimann-Johnson1, R T Lamar
1Institute for Microbial and Biochemical Technology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2398, USA.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
High-molecular-weight polymers were produced by a crude concentrated supernatant from ligninolytic Phanerochaete chrysosporium cultures in a reaction mixture containing pentachlorophenol and a humic acid precursor (ferulic acid) in the presence of a detergent and H2O2. Pure manganese peroxidase, lignin peroxidase, and laccase were also shown to catalyze the reaction.