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RECORD NUMBER: 30 OF 2019

Main Title Action of a Fluoranthene-Utilizing Bacterial Community on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Components of Creosote.
Author Mueller, J. G. ; Chapman, P. J. ; Pritchard., P. H. ;
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab., Gulf Breeze, FL.
Publisher c1989
Year Published 1989
Report Number EPA/600/J-89/425;
Stock Number PB90-245721
Additional Subjects Aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons ; Bacteria ; Creosote ; Biodeterioration ; Molecular weight ; Gas chromatography ; Reprints ; Environmental pollutants ; Soil contamination ; Fluoranthene
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NTIS  PB90-245721 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Cultures enriched by serial transfer through a mineral salts medium containing fluoranthene were used to establish a stable, 7-membered bacterial community from a sandy soil highly contaminated with coal-tar creosote. This community exhibited an ability to utilize fluoranthene as sole carbon source for growth as demonstrated by increases in protein concentration and changes in absorption spectra when grown on fluoranthene in liquid culture. Biotransformation of other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were verified by demonstrating their disappearance from an artificial PAH mixture using capillary gas chromatography. When grown on fluoranthene as sole carbon source and subsequently exposed to fluoranthene plus 16 additional PAHs typical of those found in creosote, this community transformed all PAHs present in this defined mixture. Continued incubation resulted in extensive degradation of the remaining 4 compounds. (Copyright (c) 1989 American Society for Microbiology.)