Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2001, p. 1412-1417, Vol. 67, No. 4
0099-2240/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1412-1417.2001
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Laboratoire de Synthèse et Etude de Systèmes à Intérêt Biologique, UMR 6504 du CNRS, Université Blaise Pascal, 63177 Aubière Cedex, France,1 and Laboratory for Soil Fertility and Soil Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium2
Received 24 October 2000/Accepted 8 January 2001
The biodegradation of benzothiazole and 2-hydroxybenzothiazole by two strains of Rhodococcus was monitored by reversed phase high-pressure liquid chromatography and by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Both xenobiotics were biotransformed into a hydroxylated derivative of 2-hydroxybenzothiazole by these two strains. The chemical structure of this metabolite was determined by a new NMR methodology: long-range 1H-15N heteronuclear shift correlation without any previous 15N enrichment of the compound. This powerful NMR tool allowed us to assign the metabolite structure to 2,6-dihydroxybenzothiazole.
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