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Organophosphonate Utilization by the Thermophile Geobacillus caldoxylosilyticus T20

Institute of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Wrocaw University of Technology, 50-370 Wrocaw, Poland,¹ Environmental Biotechnology Research Group, School of Biological and Environmental Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine, County Londonderry BT52 1SA, United Kingdom²

Received 26 November 2001/ Accepted 25 January 2002

A strain of Geobacillus caldoxylosilyticus from central heating system water could utilize a number of organophosphonates as the sole phosphorus source for growth at 60°C. During growth on glyphosate, aminomethylphosphonate release to the medium was observed, and in cell extracts, a glyphosate oxidoreductase-type activity, producing stoichiometric amounts of aminomethylphosphonate and glyoxylate from glyphosate, was detectable.

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