AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC METABOLISM OF 6,10,14-TRIMETHYLPENTADECAN-2-ONEBY A DENITRIFYING BACTERIUM ISOLATED FROM MARINE-SEDIMENTS

Authors
RONTANI JF GILEWICZ MJ MICHOTEY VD ZHENG TL BONIN PC BERTRAND JC
Citation
Jf. Rontani et al., AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC METABOLISM OF 6,10,14-TRIMETHYLPENTADECAN-2-ONEBY A DENITRIFYING BACTERIUM ISOLATED FROM MARINE-SEDIMENTS, Applied and environmental microbiology, 63(2), 1997, pp. 636-643
Citations number
46
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Applied and environmental microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00992240
Volume
63
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
636 - 643
Database
ISI
SICI code
0099-2240(1997)63:2<636:AAAMO6>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
This report describes the metabolism of 6,10,14-trimethylpentadecan-2- one by a denitrifying bacterium (Marinobacter sp, strain CAB) isolated from marine sediments, Under aerobic and denitrifying conditions, thi s strain efficiently degraded this ubiquitous isoprenoid ketone. Sever al bacterial metabolites, 4,8,12-trimethyltridecan-1-ol, 4,8,12-trimet hyltridecanal, 4,8,12-trimethyltridecanoic acid, Z-3,7-dimethylocten-2 oic acid, Z-3,7,11-trimethyldodecen-2-oic acid, and 6,10,14-trimethyl pentadecan-2-ol, were formally identified, and different pathways were proposed to explain the formation of such isoprenoid compounds.