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. 2000;40(4):243-9.
doi: 10.1002/1521-4028(200008)40:4<243::AID-JOBM243>3.0.CO;2-D.

Degradation of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol via chlorohydroxyquinol in Ralstonia eutropha JMP134 and JMP222

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Degradation of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol via chlorohydroxyquinol in Ralstonia eutropha JMP134 and JMP222

L Padilla et al. J Basic Microbiol. 2000.

Abstract

The aim of this work was to study the catabolic pathway of the pollutant 2,4,6-trichlorophenol in Ralstonia eutropha JMP134. 2,6-dichlorohydroquinone was detected as transient intermediate. Enzymatic transformations of 6-chlorohydroxyquinol to 2-chloromaleylacetate, and of this compound to maleylacetate were detected in crude extracts. Therefore, the degradation of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol proceeded through an hydroxyquinol pathway, different from the other chloroaromatic pathways reported in this strain. The same results were observed in two other 2,4,6-trichlorophenol degrading strains: R. eutropha JMP222, a derivative of strain JMP134 lacking the chlorocatechol catabolism-encoding pJP4 plasmid, and a river isolate, Ralstonia sp. PZK.

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