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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1992 December; 58(12): 3977-3983

Selection of a Pseudomonas cepacia strain constitutive for the degradation of trichloroethylene.

Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation, University of West Florida, Pensacola 32514-5751.

ABSTRACT

Tn5 insertion mutants of Pseudomonas cepacia G4 that were unable to degrade trichloroethylene (TCE), toluene, or phenol or to transform m-trifluoromethyl phenol (TFMP) to 7,7,7-trifluoro-2-hydroxy-6-oxo-2,4-heptadienoic acid (TFHA) were produced. Spontaneous reversion to growth on phenol or toluene as the sole source of carbon was observed in one mutant strain, G4 5223, at a frequency of approximately 1 x 10(-4) per generation. One such revertant, G4 5223-PR1, metabolized TFMP to TFHA and degraded TCE. Unlike wild-type G4, G4 5223-PR1 constitutively metabolized both TFMP and TCE without aromatic induction. G4 5223-PR1 also degraded cis-1,2-dichloroethylene, trans-1,2-dichloroethylene, and 1,1-dichloroethylene and oxidized naphthalene to alpha naphthol constitutively. G4 5223-PR1 exhibited a slight retardation in growth rate at TCE concentrations of > or = 530 microM, whereas G4 (which was unable to metabolize TCE under the same noninducing growth conditions) remained unaffected. The constitutive degradative phenotype of G4 5223-PR1 was completely stable through 100 generations of nonselective growth.

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