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Appl. Environ. Microbiol., Oct 1995, 3562-3566, Vol 61, No. 10
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Growth of the fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum with toluene as the sole carbon and energy source

FJ Weber, KC Hage and JA de Bont
Division of Industrial Microbiology, Department of Food Science, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands.

The fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum was isolated from a biofilter used for the removal of toluene from waste gases. This is the first report describing growth of a eukaryotic organism with toluene as the sole source of carbon and energy. The oxygen consumption rates, as well as the measured enzyme activities, of toluene-grown C. sphaerospermum indicate that toluene is degraded by an initial attack on the methyl group.

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