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Appl Environ Microbiol, April 1998, p. 1576-1579, Vol. 64, No. 4
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Anaerobic Degradation of Hexadecan-2-one by a Microbial Enrichment Culture under Sulfate-Reducing Conditions

Agnes Hirschler,1,* Jean-Francois Rontani,2 Danielle Raphel,2 Robert Matheron,1 and Jean-Claude Bertrand2

Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Service 452, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Saint-Jérôme, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20,1 and Laboratoire d'Océanographie et de Biogéochimie UMR 6535, Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille OSU, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, 13288 Marseille,2 France

Received 14 July 1997/Accepted 22 January 1998

A microbial enrichment culture from marine sediment was able to grow on hexadecan-2-one as the sole source of carbon and energy under sulfate-reducing conditions. Oxidation of the ketone involved carboxylation reactions and was coupled to sulfide production. This enrichment culture also grew on 6,10,14-trimethylpentadecan-2-one.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Service 452, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Saint-Jérôme, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France. Phone: 04 91 28 81 91. Fax: 04 91 28 80 30. E-mail: agnes.hirschler{at}microbio.u-3mrs.fr.




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