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Degradation of 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid by a Nocardioides Simplex Culture

Degradation of 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid by a Nocardioides Simplex Culture

L A Golovleva, R N Pertsova, L I Evtushenko, B P Baskunov

Biodegradation. 1990;1(4):263-71.

PMID: 1368472

Abstract:

A Nocardioides simplex strain 3E was isolated which totally dechlorinated 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and was capable of its utilization as the sole source of carbon. The mechanism of 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid degradation by this strain was investigated. Chloroaromatic metabolites that occur in the lag, exponential and stationary growth phases of the strain Nocardioides simplex 3E were isolated and identified bases on a combination of TLC, GC-MS and HPLC data. Decomposition of 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid at the initial stage was shown to proceed by two pathways: via the splitting of the two-carbon fragment to yield 2,4,5-trichlorophenol and the reductive dechlorination to produce 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. Hydrolytic dechlorination of 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid was found to yield dichlorohydroxyphenoxyacetic acid, thus pointing to the possible existence of a third branch at the initial stage of degradation of the xenobiotic. 2,4,5-Trichlorophenol and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid produced during the metabolism of 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and in experiments with resting cells are utilized by the strain Nocardioides simplex 3E as growth substrates.

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