1980 Volume 44 Issue 8 Pages 1841-1846
Phenol utilizing yeasts were isolated from soil. The relationship were examined between distribution of phenol uptake rate using intact cells and distribution of the activities of catechol 1, 2-oxygenase which is one of the key enzymes in phenol metabolism. Two of the isolates showed catechol 1, 2-oxygenase activity even when grown in glucose medium, though the enzyme activity was about 1% of the full activity induced by phenol. Partially constitutive mutants for catechol 1, 2-oxygenase were obtained by mutagenesis of an inducible strain. The level of mutant enzyme activity was close to that of the isolated constitutive strain. One isolate, Trichosporon cutaneum, preferentially utilized phenol to glucose in medium containing both phenol (200ppm) and glucose (0.1%), until the concentration of phenol decreased to 10_??_20ppm.
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