%0 Journal Article
%@ 1588-385X
%A  Hatvani Lóránt
%A  Manczinger László
%A  Marik Tamás
%A  Bajkán Szilvia
%A  Vidács László
%A  Bencsik Ottó
%A  Szekeres András
%A  Radulov Isidora
%A  Nita Lucian
%A  Vágvölgyi Csaba
%D 2013
%F publicatio:12543
%I Szegedi Tudományegyetem
%J ACTA BIOLOGICA SZEGEDIENSIS
%N 2
%P 117-120
%T The complete degradation of acetanilide by a consortium of microbes isolated from River Maros
%U http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/12543/
%V 57
%X Chemical pollutants occurring in rivers may have severe effects on human health along with being harmful to the environment. Bioaugmentation is a potential tool for the removal of xenobiotics from soil and water therefore the objectives of this study were the isolation, identification and characterization of microbes with acetanilide- and aniline-degrading properties from the River Maros. Microbes isolated on minimal media containing acetanilide or aniline-HCl as a sole carbon and nitrogen source were considered as acetanilide- or anilinedegraders. The decomposition of acetanilide and aniline were followed by High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). An acetanilide-degrading bacterium, identified as Rhodococcus erythropolis, was able to convert acetanilide to aniline, which was further decomposed by the fungal isolate Aspergillus ustus when the two microbes were co-cultivated in a minimal medium containing acetanilide as a sole carbon and nitrogen source. The strains isolated in this study might be used in approaches addressing the biodegradation of acetanilide and aniline in the environment.
%Z FELTÖLTŐ: Takó Miklós - tako78@bio.u-szeged.hu