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Three strains of denitrifying bacteria were anaerobically enriched and isolated from oxic or anoxic habitats with cyclohexanol or cyclohexanone as sole electron donor and carbon source and with nitrate as electron acceptor. The bacteria were facultatively anaerobic, Gramnegative and metabolism was strictly oxidative with molecular oxygen, nitrate, or nitrite as terminal electron acceptor. Cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone were degraded both anaerobically and aerobically. Aromatic compounds were oxidized in the presence of molecular oxygen only. One of the bacterial strains was further characterized. During anaerobic cyclohexanol degradation approximately 40% of the substrate was oxidized to phenol, which accumulated as dead-endproduct in the growth medium; 60% of cyclohexanol was completely oxidized to CO2 and assimilated, respectively. In addition to phenol formation, transient accumulation of cyclohexanone, 2-cyclohexenone and 1,3-cyclohexanedione was observed. Based on these findings we propose a pathway for anaerobic cyclohexanol degradation involving these intermediates.
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Dangel, W., Tschech, A. & Fuchs, G. Anaerobic metabolism of cyclohexanol by denitrifying bacteria. Arch. Microbiol. 150, 358–362 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408307
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