TY - JOUR TI - The complete degradation of acetanilide by a consortium of microbes isolated from River Maros JF - ACTA BIOLOGICA SZEGEDIENSIS N1 - FELTÖLT?: Takó Miklós - tako78@bio.u-szeged.hu AV - public A1 - Hatvani Lóránt A1 - Manczinger László A1 - Marik Tamás A1 - Bajkán Szilvia A1 - Vidács László A1 - Bencsik Ottó A1 - Szekeres András A1 - Radulov Isidora A1 - Nita Lucian A1 - Vágvölgyi Csaba IS - 2 PB - Szegedi Tudományegyetem SN - 1588-385X EP - 120 UR - http://www2.sci.u-szeged.hu/ABS/2013/Acta%20HPb/57117.pdf ID - publicatio12543 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013/// SP - 117 VL - 57 ER -