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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1991 December; 57(12): 3652-3655

Limited bacterial mineralization of fungal degradation intermediates from synthetic lignin.

Laboratoria de Bioquimica, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.

ABSTRACT

The ability of selected bacterial strains and consortia to mineralize degradation intermediates produced by Phanerochaete chrysosporium from 14C-labeled synthetic lignins was studied. Three different molecular weight fractions of the intermediates were subjected to the action of the bacteria, which had been grown on a lignin-related dimeric compound. Two consortia isolated from wood being decayed naturally by a Ganoderma species of white rot fungus (the palo podrido system) mineralized 10 to 11% of the fraction with a molecular weight of approximately 500 but less than 4% of the higher- and lower-molecular-weight fractions. The consortia mineralized 5 to 9% of the original lignins. The ability of two pseudomonads isolated earlier from lignin-rich environments to mineralize the original lignins or fungus degradation products was much lower.