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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1991 November; 57(11): 3367-3370

Reduction of nitrosubstituted aromatic compounds by the halophilic anaerobic eubacteria Haloanaerobium praevalens and Sporohalobacter marismortui.

Division of Microbial and Molecular Ecology, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

ABSTRACT

The moderately halophilic, obligately anaerobic eubacteria Haloanaerobium praevalens DSM 2228 and Sporohalobacter marismortui ATCC 35420 are able to reduce a variety of nitrosubstituted aromatic compounds at a high rate to the corresponding amines. Compounds degraded included nitrobenzene, o-nitrophenol, m-nitrophenol, p-nitrophenol, nitroanilines, 2,4-dinitrophenol, and 2,4-dinitroaniline. Most of these compounds, when added at concentrations of 50 to 100 mg/liter, were completely transformed within 24 h, but at the highest concentrations growth rates were somewhat lowered. Growth of H. praevalens in the presence of 14C-labeled p-nitrophenol showed that the compound was not incorporated by the cells or degraded to acid-volatile compounds.