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Isolation and Characterization of two New Microbial Strains Capable of Degradation of the Naturally Occurring Organophosphonate––Ciliatine

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Air-born mixed fungal and bacterial culture capable of complete degradation of ciliatine was isolated. The utilization of the natural organophosphonate proceeded in the phosphate independent manner. Enzymatic activity involved in ciliatine degradation studied in the fungal cell-free extract proved to be distinct from bacterial pathway described before.

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This work was supported by Ministry of Education and Science, Grant 2 P04B 001 28.

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  1. Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, PL-50370 , Wroclaw, Poland

    Magdalena Klimek-Ochab, Agnieszka Obojska & Barbara Lejczak

  2. Department of Land Ecology, Section of Mycology, University of Pavia, I-27100, Pavia, Italy

    Anna M. Picco

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Klimek-Ochab, M., Obojska, A., Picco, A.M. et al. Isolation and Characterization of two New Microbial Strains Capable of Degradation of the Naturally Occurring Organophosphonate––Ciliatine. Biodegradation 18, 223–231 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10532-006-9057-7

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