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. 1993 Jun;59(6):1927-30.
doi: 10.1128/aem.59.6.1927-1930.1993.

Degradation of phenanthrene, fluorene, fluoranthene, and pyrene by a Mycobacterium sp

B Boldrin  1 , A Tiehm, C Fritzsche
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Degradation of phenanthrene, fluorene, fluoranthene, and pyrene by a Mycobacterium sp

B Boldrin et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1993 Jun.

Abstract

Mycobacterium sp. strain BB1 was isolated from a former coal gasification site. It was able to utilize phenanthrene, pyrene, and fluoranthene as sole sources of carbon and energy and to degrade fluorene cometabolically. Exponential growth with solid phenanthrene, pyrene, and fluoranthene was obtained in fermentor cultures. The growth rates were 0.069, 0.056, and 0.040 h-1, respectively. Several metabolites of phenanthrene and fluorene metabolism were identified.

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