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Isolation and identification of a phenanthrene-degrading bacterial strain

ZHU Rugang1; ZHONG Ming1; ZHOU Qixing2; LIU Haining1;LI Yushuang1   

  1. 1Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology of Liaoning Province, Shenyang Agricultural
    University, Shenyang 110161, China;
    2Key Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecological Process, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese
    Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
  • Received:2005-11-03 Revised:2006-08-24 Online:2006-11-18 Published:2006-11-18

Abstract: Through selective enriched culture, a phenanthrene-degrading bacterial strain was isolated from the oil-contaminated soil in Shenfu irrigation area of Shenyang, Northeast China. The morphological and physiological-biochemical identification, 16S rDNA sequence analysis, and phylogenetic study showed that this strain was belonged to genus Acinetobacter and named as Acinetobacter sp. L2, and closest to Acinetobacter sp. DG880[AY258108]. It could use phenanthrene as the sole carbon source. After 7 days culture, the degradation rate of phenanthrene was 96.3%. According to the activity of catechol 2,3-dioxygenase, the strain probably had phenanthrene-degrading genes.

Key words: Riverine organic carbon, Terrestrial ecosystem, Global carbon cycle, Drainage erosion, Radiocarbon, Anthropogenic activities