TY - JOUR
T1 - Selective and Continuous Degradation of Carbazole Contained in Petroleum Oil by Resting Cells of Sphingomonas sp. CDH-7
AU - Kirimura, Kohtaro
AU - Nakagawa, Hiroyuki
AU - Tsuji, Kenji
AU - Matsuda, Kazuya
AU - Kurane, Ryuichiro
AU - Usami, Shoji
PY - 1999/1/1
Y1 - 1999/1/1
N2 - Microbial degradation of carbazole (CA), a model of hard-removal heterocyclic nitrogen compounds contained in petroleum oil, was examined using Sphingomonas sp. CDH-7 isolated from a soil sample by screening for CA-assimilating microorganisms. CDH-7 used CA as a sole source of carbon and nitrogen, and metabolized CA to ammonia via anthranilic acid as an intermediate product. When CDH-7 was cultivated in the medium containing CA at the concentration of 500 mg/l (2.99 mM), CA was completely degraded within 50 h. By the reaction with the resting cells of CDH-7, 500 mg/l of CA was completely degraded within 4 h, with 1.64 mM of ammonia accumulated in the reaction mixture. When CA was added at the concentration of 100 mg/l (0.599 mM) periodically to the reaction mixture ten times, 925 mg/l (5.54 mM) of CA was degraded within 48 h by the resting cells, and 4.50 mM of ammonia was accumulated in the reaction mixture with a 75.1% molar conversion yield based on total CA added. The resting cells could almost completely degrade CA in a two-liquid-phase system which consists of water and organic solvent, even in the presence of 20% (v/v) isooctane, n-hexane, cyclohexane, and kerosene as a model petroleum oil. In the presence of an organic solvent system such as 20% (v/v) p-xylene, toluene, and heptanol, however, CA degradation yields decreased.
AB - Microbial degradation of carbazole (CA), a model of hard-removal heterocyclic nitrogen compounds contained in petroleum oil, was examined using Sphingomonas sp. CDH-7 isolated from a soil sample by screening for CA-assimilating microorganisms. CDH-7 used CA as a sole source of carbon and nitrogen, and metabolized CA to ammonia via anthranilic acid as an intermediate product. When CDH-7 was cultivated in the medium containing CA at the concentration of 500 mg/l (2.99 mM), CA was completely degraded within 50 h. By the reaction with the resting cells of CDH-7, 500 mg/l of CA was completely degraded within 4 h, with 1.64 mM of ammonia accumulated in the reaction mixture. When CA was added at the concentration of 100 mg/l (0.599 mM) periodically to the reaction mixture ten times, 925 mg/l (5.54 mM) of CA was degraded within 48 h by the resting cells, and 4.50 mM of ammonia was accumulated in the reaction mixture with a 75.1% molar conversion yield based on total CA added. The resting cells could almost completely degrade CA in a two-liquid-phase system which consists of water and organic solvent, even in the presence of 20% (v/v) isooctane, n-hexane, cyclohexane, and kerosene as a model petroleum oil. In the presence of an organic solvent system such as 20% (v/v) p-xylene, toluene, and heptanol, however, CA degradation yields decreased.
KW - Biodegradation
KW - Carbazole
KW - Heterocyclic nitrogen compound
KW - Resting cell reaction
KW - Sphingomonas sp
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U2 - 10.1271/bbb.63.1563
DO - 10.1271/bbb.63.1563
M3 - Article
C2 - 10540744
AN - SCOPUS:0033193959
VL - 63
SP - 1563
EP - 1568
JO - Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry
JF - Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry
SN - 0916-8451
IS - 9
ER -