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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2001, p. 1412-1417, Vol. 67, No. 4
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.
0099-2240/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1412-1417.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Long-Range 1H-15N
Heteronuclear Shift Correlation at Natural Abundance: a Tool To Study
Benzothiazole Biodegradation by Two Rhodococcus
Strains
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de
Synthèse et Etude de Systèmes à Intérêt
Biologique, UMR 6504 du CNRS, Université Blaise Pascal, 63177 Aubière Cedex, France. Phone: 33-4-73-40-77-14. Fax:
33-4-73-40-77-17. E-mail:
amdelort{at}chimtp.univ-bpclermont.fr.
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