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Complete biodegradation of cyclohexane was demonstrated to occur in a system containing two strains of Pseudomonad bacteria, viz an n-alkane oxidizer and a microorganism utilizing cyclohexanol. n-Heptane is also present as a substrate for the former. Neither bacterial strain was capable of utilizing cyclohexane individually.
This biodegradation of cyclohexane occurs in two steps:
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the conversion of cyclohexane into cyclohexanol by the n-alkane oxidizer (co-oxidation) and
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utilization of cyclohexanol by the second strain.
In unsuccessful attempts to accumulate a bacterium which could grow on cyclohexane as its sole source of carbon, we have used some uncommon methods, which are briefly described.
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de Klerk, H., van der Linden, A.C. Bacterial degradation of cyclohexane participation of a co-oxidation reaction. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 40, 7–15 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00394548
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