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Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5733-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5733-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
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28 Sep 2018
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Potential for phenol biodegradation in cloud waters

Audrey Lallement, Ludovic Besaury, Elise Tixier, Martine Sancelme, Pierre Amato, Virginie Vinatier, Isabelle Canet, Olga V. Polyakova, Viatcheslay B. Artaev, Albert T. Lebedev, Laurent Deguillaume, Gilles Mailhot, and Anne-Marie Delort

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The main objective of this work was to evaluate the potential degradation of phenol, a highly toxic pollutant, by cloud microorganisms. Phenol concentrations measured on five cloud samples collected at the PUY station in France were from 0.15 to 0.74 µg L−1. Metatranscriptomic analysis suggested that phenol could be biodegraded directly in clouds, likely by Gammaproteobacteria. A large screening showed that 93 % of 145 bacterial strains isolated from clouds were able to degrade phenol.
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