マエダ　ミチヒサ   Maeda Michihisa   前田　理久    所属   明治大学  農学部    職種   専任教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	1994/11
形態種別	学術雑誌
標題	A Gram-positive polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading bacterium, Rhodococcus erythropolis strain TA421,isolated from a termite ecosystem
執筆形態	共著(筆頭者)
掲載誌名	Biosci. Biotech. Biochem.
巻・号・頁	58(11),pp.2111-2113
著者・共著者	S. -Y. Chung, M. Maeda, E. Song, K. Horikoshi, and T. Kudo
概要	Gram-pos. bacteria, identified as Rhodococcus erythropolis, were isolated from the ecosystem of the wood-feeding termite Reticulitermes speratus and found to aerobically degrade polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compds. Rhodococcus erythropolis stain TA421 and strain TA431 were isolated by enrichment culture from termites obtained from different locations and each was found to be capable of degrading polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compds. to chlorobenzoates. These results suggest that the termite ecosystem is one possible habitat for biphenyl- and PCB-degrading Rhodococci. The spectrum of PCB-congeners degraded by strain TA421 is different from that of other, previously characterized PCB-degrading bacteria such as Rhodococcus globerulus strain P6 (formerly Corynebacterium sp. strain MB1) or Pseudomonas sp. strain LB400.