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Metabolism of diphenylurea by a Marinobacter sp. isolated from a contaminated ephemeral stream bed in the Negev Desert.

A moderate halophilic Marinobacter sp. (designated strain DPUZ) able to metabolize 1,3-diphenylurea (DPU) was isolated from a contaminated ephemeral desert stream bed near an industrial complex in the northern part of the Negev Desert (Israel). Metabolism of DPU was accompanied by a transient accumulation of a metabolite identified as aniline using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, thus indicating a metabolic pathway involving cleavage of the urea bridge between the phenyl structures. Aniline was further degraded without detection of other metabolites suggesting a complete degradation. Strain DPUZ grows at NaCl concentrations between 0.2 and 2.6 M with an optimum at 0.51 M. It grows at a temperature range between 20 and 40 degrees C with an optimum at 35 degrees C. This is the first study on bacterial metabolism of DPU.[1]

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  1. Metabolism of diphenylurea by a Marinobacter sp. isolated from a contaminated ephemeral stream bed in the Negev Desert. Sørensen, S.R., Arbeli, Z., Aamand, J., Ronen, Z. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. (2002) [Pubmed]
 
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