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Applied and Environmental Microbiology Mar 2003The degradability of pivalic acid was established by the isolation of several facultative denitrifying strains belonging to Zoogloea resiniphila, to Thauera and...
The degradability of pivalic acid was established by the isolation of several facultative denitrifying strains belonging to Zoogloea resiniphila, to Thauera and Herbaspirillum, and to Comamonadaceae, related to [Aquaspirillum] and Acidovorax, and of a nitrate-reducing bacterium affiliated with Moraxella osloensis. Pivalic acid was completely mineralized to carbon dioxide. The catabolic pathways may involve an oxidation to dimethylmalonate or a carbon skeleton rearrangement, a putative 2,2-dimethylpropionyl coenzyme A mutase.
Topics: Anaerobiosis; Betaproteobacteria; Carbon; Carbon Dioxide; DNA, Ribosomal; Molecular Sequence Data; Nitrates; Pentanoic Acids; Phylogeny; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Sewage
PubMed: 12620885
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.3.1866-1870.2003