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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 66, Issue 5, Pages 1917-1922Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.1917-1922.2000
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- NIEHS NIH HHS [P42 ES005948, P42ES05948] Funding Source: Medline
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Pyrene is a regulated pollutant at sites contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). It is mineralized by some bacteria but is also transformed to nonmineral products by a variety of other PAH-degrading bacteria. We examined the formation of such products by four bacterial strains and identified and further characterized the most apparently significant of these metabolites. Pseudomonas stutzeri strain P16 and Bacillus cereus strain P21 transformed pyrene primarily to cis-4,5-dihydro-4,5-dihydroxypyrene (PYRdHD), the first intermediate in the known pathway for aerobic bacterial mineralization of pyrene. Sphingomonas yanoikuyae strain Rt transformed pyrene to PYRdHD and pyrene-4,5-dione (PYRQ). Both strain RI and Pseudomonas saccharophila strain P15 transform PYRdHD to PYRQ nearly stoichiometrically, suggesting that PYRQ is formed by oxidation of PYRdHD to 4,5-dihydroxypyrene and subsequent autoxidation of this metabolite. A pyrene-mineralizing organism, Mycobacterium strain PYR-I, also transforms PYRdHD to PYRQ at high initial concentrations of PYRdHD, However, strain PYR-1 is able to use both PYRdHD and PYRQ as growth substrates. PYRdHD strongly inhibited phenanthrene degradation by strains P15 and R1 but had only a minor effect on strains P16 and P21, At their aqueous saturation concentrations, both PYRdHD and PYRQ severely inhibited benzo[a] pyrene mineralization by strains P15 and R1, Collectively, these findings suggest that products derived from pyrene transformation have the potential to accumulate in PAH-contaminated systems and that such products can significantly influence the removal of other PAH. However, these products may be susceptible to subsequent degradation by organisms able to metabolize pyrene more extensively if such organisms are present in the system.
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