Influence of agitation on the removal of nonylphenol by the white-rot fungi Trametes versicolor and Bjerkandera sp. BOL 13.
Bjerkandera sp. BOL 13 removed 95% of nonylphenol (at 9.7 mg nonylphenol L(-1) day(-1)) from aqueous medium after 5 days of incubation in agitated cultures. This removal rate decreased 2.5-fold in static cultures. By comparison, Trametes versicolor removed nonylphenol at 2.8 mg L(-1) day(-1) under conditions of static incubation, probably due to the action of laccase, but no growth was recorded in the agitated bottles.
Department of Biotechnology, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, Lund, SE-221 00, Sweden.
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Soares
Benoit
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Guieysse
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Mattiasson
D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000254:growth & development; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D005285:Fermentation; D010636:Phenols / Q000378:metabolism*
D010636:Phenols; C025256:nonylphenol