Colonization and disintegration of tire rubber by a colonial mutant of Nocardia

Authors
Tsuchii, A Tokiwa, Y
Citation
A. Tsuchii et Y. Tokiwa, Colonization and disintegration of tire rubber by a colonial mutant of Nocardia, J BIOSCI BI, 87(4), 1999, pp. 542-544
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Biotecnology & Applied Microbiology",Microbiology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
ISSN journal
13891723 → ACNP
Volume
87
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
542 - 544
Database
ISI
SICI code
1389-1723(199904)87:4<542:CADOTR>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Forty-seven percent of a tire tread strip with a natural rubber content of 100 phr (parts per hundred of rubber) was completely mineralized by a mutan t strain, Re, of the rubber-degrading organism, Nocardia sp. strain 835A, w hile 34% was disintegrated into very small particles after a cultivation pe riod of 8 weeks.