N-limited stationary cultures of the white rot fungi Phanerochaete chr
ysosporium, Trametes versicolor, and Coriolopsis polysona mineralized
1.393 +/- 0.353 (0.301 +/- 0.023) and 0.398 +/- 0.061 (0.112 +/- 0.010
), and 0.015 +/- 0.004 (0.002 +/- 0.0008) % of the originally supplied
30.14 nmol (513.7 nmol) of 3,3',4,4'-tetrachloro(U-C-14]biphenyl (PCB
77) during 4 weeks. The extent of PCB 77 degradation was followed by
C-14-radioactivity partitioning into aqueous, organic soluble, biomass
associated, aqueous (intracellular) and organic soluble (intracellula
r) fractions. After four weeks incubation the pattern of distribution
of radioactivity was similar in P. chrysosporium and C. polysona at-hi
gher dose but not at the lower dose of PCB 77. T. versicolor differed
in the distribution pattern of radiolabel.