Letters in applied microbiology, 41(3), 242-247 (2005-08-20)
The applicability of plasmid pNB2 for bioaugmentation of bacteria in model wastewater treatment reactors receiving 3-chloroaniline (3-CA) was investigated. A setup of three biofilm reactors was studied, all initially inoculated with bacteria from activated sludge. Reactor PB received a Pseudomonas
Applied and environmental microbiology, 69(3), 1511-1520 (2003-03-07)
Bioaugmentation of bioreactors focuses on the removal of xenobiotics, with little attention typically paid to the recovery of disrupted reactor functions such as ammonium-nitrogen removal. Chloroanilines are widely used in industry as a precursor to a variety of products and
The survival and activity of microbial degradative inoculants in bioreactors is critical to obtain successful biodegradation of non- or slowly degradable pollutants. Achieving this in industrial wastewater reactors is technically challenging. We evaluated a strategy to obtain complete and stable
Applied and environmental microbiology, 78(3), 828-838 (2011-11-22)
Broad-host-range catabolic plasmids play an important role in bacterial degradation of man-made compounds. To gain insight into the role of these plasmids in chloroaniline degradation, we determined the first complete nucleotide sequences of an IncP-1 chloroaniline degradation plasmid, pWDL7::rfp and
Applied and environmental microbiology, 66(7), 2906-2913 (2000-07-06)
A strain identified as Comamonas testosteroni I2 was isolated from activated sludge and found to be able to mineralize 3-chloroaniline (3-CA). During the mineralization, a yellow intermediate accumulated temporarily, due to the distal meta-cleavage of chlorocatechol. This strain was tested
