Degradation of aromatic compounds by Trichosporon sp
Caselli, L.; Hanau, S.
Bollettino della Societa Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale 70(4): 83-88
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-8771 PMID: 7916195 Document Number: 429544
When cultured in liquid media, samples of the yeast Trichosporon grow readily and degrade phenol; glutamate was found to stimulate both fungal growth and phenol catabolism, with a distinctive lag. In addition, this same strain grows in the presence of 2-chloro-phenol and 2-methyl, 4-chlorophenol (which are also degraded) and in the presence of 2-nitrophenol, 4-nitrophenol, 2,4-dinitrophenol, which are either degraded or not, as in the case of 4-nitrophenol. The kinetics of both growth and of aromatic catabolism is suggestive of inductive phenomena for key metabolic enzymes.