Extracellular ligninase of Phanerochaete chrysosporium Burdsall has no role in the degradation of DDT

Köhler, Adelhard E.; Jäger, Alexander; Willershausen, Harald; Graf, Helmut

doi:10.1007/bf00260994

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“…H a m m e l et al 1986) but not D D T (Kohler et al 1988 (Boari et al 1984;H a m d i 1991). Our research now focuses on a new strategy: an aerobic pretreatment stage in order to reduce the phenolic and toxic aromatic c o m p o u n d s followed by anaerobic treatment.…”

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Decolourization of olive mill waste-waters by the white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium: involvement of the lignin-degrading system

Sayadi

Ellouz

1992

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

102

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The decolourization of olive mill waste-waters (OMW) by Phanerochaete chrysosporium was investigated. OMW decolourization occurred during the primary phase of growth when glycerol was used as the carbon source, and during secondary metabolism in nitrogen-limited cultures. The decolourization was found to be extensive (7407o of colour removal, 80070 of chemical oxygen demand removal) when the cultures were supplemented with veratryl alcohol and flushed with 02. The biodegradation system was repressed with glutamate as a nitrogen source. These results suggest that all or part of the lignin-degrading system of P. chrysosporium played a role in biodegradation of OMW. The decolourization of OMW corresponds to depolymerization of high-molecular-mass aromatics combined with mineralization of a wide range of monoaromatic compounds.

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Decolourization of olive mill waste-waters by the white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium: involvement of the lignin-degrading system

Sayadi

Ellouz

1992

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

102

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“…Some of these organisms have been shown to produce one or more extracellular peroxidase enzyme systems termed ligninases or lignin peroxidases, which are involved in complex radical-mediated attack upon lignin (Hammel et al 1986;Bumpus and Aust 1987a). It has been shown that some white-rot fungi can also cleave a variety of organic chemicals, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Bumpus 1989;Haemmerli et al 1986;Sanglard et al 1986), D D T (K6hler et al 1988;Bumpus and Aust 1987b), polychlorinated biphenyls (Eaton 1985), hexachlorocyclohexane (Bumpus et al 1985), dichloroaniline (Hallinger et al 1988) and pentachlorophenol (Mileski et al 1988). Most of these studies have employed strains of Phanerochaete chrysosporiurn, although degadation by Funalia oallica, Coriolus vesicolor, Poria cinerescens, and…”

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Comparison of abilities of white-rot fungi to mineralize selected xenobiotic compounds

Morgan

Lewis

Watkinson

1991

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

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The abilities of the white-rot fungi Chrysosporium lionorurn, Trametes versicolor, Phanerochaete chrysosporiurn and Stereum hirsuturn to mineralize 3,4-dichloroaniline, dieldrin and phenanthrene were investigated. S. hirsutum did not mineralize any of the test compounds but the other strains partly mineralized them all to varying degrees. The relative degradation rates per unit biomass were T. versicolor > C. lionorum > P. chrysosporium. Evidence was obtained for the production of water-soluble metabolic intermediates but no attempt was made to characterize these. It was found that mineral salts-glucose medium supplemented with trace mineral nutrients, vitamins and 1.5 mM 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl alcohol (veratryl alcohol) resulted in the highest mineralization rate. At no time in these experiments was there detectable extracellular ligninase (lignin peroxidase) activity.

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“…However, it is unclear how ligninolytic activity relates to the degradation by white rot fungi of mono-aromatic xenobiotics, including many pesticides, which do not require depolymerisation. In the case of the persistent insecticides lindane and DDT, ligninolytic peroxidases were found to have no involvement in degradation by Phanerochaete chryosporium [7,8].…”

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“…While there are many reports in the literature of pesticide degradation by white rot fungi, these have focussed on the degradation of single pesticides by one or a few isolates [2,7,8,9]. It is unclear whether such fungi have generic abilities to degrade pesticides, and whether similar degradative abilities are ubiquitous among the white rot fungi.…”

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Degradation of contrasting pesticides by white rot fungi and its relationship with ligninolytic potential

Bending¹

2002

FEMS Microbiology Letters

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The capacity of nine species of white rot fungus from a variety of basidiomycete orders to degrade contrasting mono-aromatic pesticides was investigated. There was no relationship between degradation of the dye Poly R-478, a presumptive test for ligninolytic potential, and degradation of the highly available pesticides diuron, metalaxyl, atrazine or terbuthylazine in liquid culture. However, there were significant positive correlations between the rates of degradation of the different pesticides. Greatest degradation of all the pesticides was achieved by Coriolus versicolor, Hypholoma fasciculare and Stereum hirsutum. After 42 days, maximum degradation of diuron, atrazine and terbuthylazine was above 86%, but for metalaxyl less than 44%. When grown in the organic matrix of an on-farm 'biobed' pesticide remediation system, relative degradation rates of the highly available pesticides by C. versicolor, H. fasciculare and S. hirsutum showed some differences to those in liquid culture. While H. fasciculare and C. versicolor were able to degrade about a third of the poorly available compound chlorpyrifos in biobed matrix after 42 days, S. hirsutum, which was the most effective degrader of the available pesticides, showed little capacity to degrade the compound. ß

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Extracellular ligninase of Phanerochaete chrysosporium Burdsall has no role in the degradation of DDT

Cited by 76 publications

References 14 publications

Decolourization of olive mill waste-waters by the white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium: involvement of the lignin-degrading system

Decolourization of olive mill waste-waters by the white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium: involvement of the lignin-degrading system

Comparison of abilities of white-rot fungi to mineralize selected xenobiotic compounds

Degradation of contrasting pesticides by white rot fungi and its relationship with ligninolytic potential

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