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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 1999, p. 1083-1091, Vol. 65, No. 3
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Degradation of Chloronitrobenzenes by a Coculture of Pseudomonas putida and a Rhodococcus sp.

Hee-Sung Park,1 Sung-Jin Lim,2 Young Keun Chang,1 Andrew G. Livingston,3 and Hak-Sung Kim2,*

Department of Chemical Engineering1 and Department of Biological Sciences,2 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea, and Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London SW7 2BY, United Kingdom3

Received 29 September 1998/Accepted 5 January 1999

A single microorganism able to mineralize chloronitrobenzenes (CNBs) has not been reported, and degradation of CNBs by coculture of two microbial strains was attempted. Pseudomonas putida HS12 was first isolated by analogue enrichment culture using nitrobenzene (NB) as the substrate, and this strain was observed to possess a partial reductive pathway for the degradation of NB. From high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance analyses, NB-grown cells of P. putida HS12 were found to convert 3- and 4-CNBs to the corresponding 5- and 4-chloro-2-hydroxyacetanilides, respectively, by partial reduction and subsequent acetylation. For the degradation of CNBs, Rhodococcus sp. strain HS51, which degrades 4- and 5-chloro-2-hydroxyacetanilides, was isolated and combined with P. putida HS12 to give a coculture. This coculture was confirmed to mineralize 3- and 4-CNBs in the presence of an additional carbon source. A degradation pathway for 3- and 4-CNBs by the two isolated strains was also proposed.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea. Phone: 82-42-869-2616. Fax: 82-42-869-2610. E-mail: hskim{at}sorak.kaist.ac.kr.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 1999, p. 1083-1091, Vol. 65, No. 3
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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