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The oxidation of biphenyl by Cyanobacterium, Oscillatoria sp., strain JCM was studied. The organism grown photoautotrophically in the presence of biphenyl oxidized biphenyl to form 4-hydroxybiphenyl. The structure of the metabolite was elucidated by ultraviolet and mass spectra and shown to be identical to authentic 4-hydroxybiphenyl. In addition this metabolite had properties indentical to 4-hydroxybiphenyl when analyzed by thin-layer and high-pressure liquid chromatography. Experiments with [14C]-biphenyl showed that over a 24 h period the organism oxidized 2.9% of the added biphenyl to ethyl acetate-soluble products.
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- tlc:
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thin-layer chromatography
- hplc:
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high pressure liquid chromatography
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Cerniglia, C.E., Van Baalen, C. & Gibson, D.T. Oxidation of biphenyl by the Cyanobacterium, Oscillatoria sp., strain JCM. Arch. Microbiol. 125, 203–207 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00446877
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