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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1984 September; 48(3): 491-496

Mechanisms and pathways of aniline elimination from aquatic environments.

ABSTRACT

The fate of aniline, a representative of arylamine pollutants derived from the manufacture of dyes, coal liquefaction, and pesticide degradation, was comprehensively evaluated by use of unpolluted and polluted pond water as model environments. Evaporation plus autoxidation proved to be minor elimination mechanisms, removing ca. 1% of the added aniline per day. Instantaneous binding to humic components of a 0.1% sewage sludge inoculum removed 4%. Biodegradation of aniline in pond water was accelerated by the sewage sludge inoculum. A substantial portion of the degraded aniline carbon was mineralized to CO2 within a 1-week period, and microbial biomass was formed as a result of aniline utilization. Biodegradation was clearly the most significant removal mechanism of polluting aniline from pond water. A gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric analysis of biodegradation intermediates revealed that the major pathway of aniline biodegradation in pond water involved oxidative deamination to catechol, which was further metabolized through cis,cis-muconic, beta-ketoadipic, levulinic, and succinic acid intermediates to CO2. Minor biodegradation pathways involved reversible acylation to acetanilide and formanilide, whereas N-oxidation resulted in small amounts of oligomeric condensation products.

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