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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2002, p. 2081-2084, Vol. 68, No. 4
0099-2240/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.4.2081-2084.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Organophosphonate Utilization by the Thermophile Geobacillus caldoxylosilyticus T20

Agnieszka Obojska,1 Nigel G. Ternan,2* Barbara Lejczak,1 Pawel Kafarski,1 and Geoff McMullan2

Institute of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Wroclaw University of Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, 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.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Environmental Biotechnology Research Group, School of Biological and Environmental Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine, County Londonderry BT52 1SA, United Kingdom. Phone: 44 (0) 28 7032 3063. Fax: 44 (0) 28 7032 4911. E-mail: ng.ternan{at}ulst.ac.uk.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2002, p. 2081-2084, Vol. 68, No. 4
0099-2240/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.4.2081-2084.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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