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BIODEGRADATION
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 169-177Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013128713433
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aerobic wastewater treatment; biodegradation; formaldehyde; Hansenula polymorpha; industrial wastewater; methanol; methylotrophic yeast
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The application of methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha to the treatment of methanol and formaldehyde-containing wastewater was experimentally verified. A variety of real wastewater samples originating from chemical industry effluent were examined. The yeast cell culture could grow in the wastewater environment, revealing low trophic requirements and a very high adaptation potential to poor cultivation conditions. The proliferation of cells was accompanied by a concomitant xenobiotic biodegradation. Grown, preadapted cellular suspension at a density of about 1 x 10(7) cells/ml proved to be able to utilize formaldehyde present in wastewater at concentrations up to 1750 mg/l, levels toxic to most microorganisms. The biological waste treatment method presented shows the enhanced potential by means of specific enzymatic activities of monocarbonic compound oxidations through methylotrophic pathway reactions. The need to obtain mutants highly resistant to formaldehyde has also been rationalized.
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