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Published in final edited form as: Crit Rev Microbiol. 2012 May 25;38(4):339–363. doi: 10.3109/1040841X.2012.682050

Table 1.

Physiological evidence on the non-involvement of LDS and/or involvement of an alternate oxidative enzyme system in biodegradation of certain xenobiotic groups by P. chrysosporium based on the use of different culture conditions.

Chemical structure/group	Name of the Xenobiotic compounds	Culture condition(s) supporting biodegradation	Reference
Aliphatic hydrocarbons	Linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS)	HN/ME > LN	Yadav et al. 2001a
Chloro-aliphatic hydrocarbons	Trichloroethylene (TCE)	ME > HN > LN	Yadav et al. 2000
Mono-aromatic hydrocarbons	Benzene, Toluene, Ethylenebenzene and Xylenes (BTEX)	ME > LN	Yadav and Reddy 1993b
Poly-aromatic hydrocarbons	Phenanthrene	ME	Sutherland et al. 1991
Poly-aromatic hydrocarbons	Phenanthrene	HN ≥ LN	Dhawale et al. 1992
Nitro-aromatic compounds	Trinitrotoluene (TNT)	HN < LN	Ryan and Bumpus 1989
	2,4-Dintritoluene (2,4- DNT) ^*	ME > LN	Jackson et al. 1999
	2-Amino-4,6- dinitrotoulene (2-Am-4,6- DNT) ^*	ME < LN	Jackson et al. 1999
Chloro-aromatic compounds	Chlorobenzene and o-, m-, and p- dichlorobenzenes (DCBs)	ME > LN	Yadav et al. 1995a
Chloro-aromatic compounds	4-chlorophenol (4-CP)	LN > MC	Zouari et al. 2002
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)	Aroclor 1254 and Aroclor 1260	ME > LN > HN	Yadav et al. 1995b
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)	Delor 103 and Delor 105	HN but not LN	Krcmár and Ulrich 1998
Pesticides/herbicides	1,1-bis(4-chlorophenyl)- 2,2,2-trichloroethane (DDT)	HN/LN^*	Kohler et al. 1988
	2,4,5-trichloro phenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T)^*	ME > LN > HN	Yadav and Reddy 1992
	2,4-dichloro phenoxyacetic acid (2,4- D)	ME > HN > LN	Yadav and Reddy 1993a
Dyes	Crystal violet	LN > HN	Bumpus and Brock 1988

There was no linear relationship between the LiP production and degradation of the xenobiotic compound when grown under LN culture conditions.

Abbreviations: MC, high glycerol/high glutamate medium; ME, malt-extract medium; HN, defined high-nitrogen medium; LN, defined low-nitrogen medium (Tien and Kirk 1988).