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Alicja B Veselá1, Helena Pelantová, Miroslav Sulc, Martina Macková, Petra Lovecká, Markéta Thimová, Fabrizia Pasquarelli, Martina Pičmanová, Miroslav Pátek, Tek Chand Bhalla, Ludmila Martínková.
Abstract
The aim of this work was to determine the ability of rhodococci to transform 3,5-dichloro-4-hydroxybenzonitrile (chloroxynil), 3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile (bromoxynil), 3,5-diiodo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile (ioxynil) and 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile (dichlobenil); to identify the products and determine their acute toxicities. Rhodococcus erythropolis A4 and Rhodococcus rhodochrous PA-34 converted benzonitrile herbicides into amides, but only the former strain was able to hydrolyze 2,6-dichlorobenzamide into 2,6-dichlorobenzoic acid, and produced also more of the carboxylic acids from the other herbicides compared to strain PA-34. Transformation of nitriles into amides decreased acute toxicities for chloroxynil and dichlobenil, but increased them for bromoxynil and ioxynil. The amides inhibited root growth in Lactuca sativa less than the nitriles but more than the acids. The conversion of the nitrile group may be the first step in the mineralization of benzonitrile herbicides but cannot be itself considered to be a detoxification.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID： 22922990 DOI： 10.1007/s10295-012-1184-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol ISSN： 1367-5435 Impact factor: 3.346