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. 1969 Jun;17(6):853–856. doi: 10.1128/am.17.6.853-856.1969

Microbial Hydrocarbon Co-oxidation. III. Isolation and Characterization of an α, α′-Dimethyl-cis, cis-Muconic Acid-producing Strain of Nocardia corallina

V W Jamison 1, R L Raymond 1, J O Hudson 1
PMCID: PMC377825  PMID: 16349849

Abstract

A soil isolate identified as a strain of Nocardia corallina accumulated α, α′-dimethyl-cis, cis-muconic acid under co-oxidation conditions employing n-hexadecane for growth and p-xylene as the co-oxidizable substrate. N. corallina V-49 was postulated to have two pathways for the oxidation of p-xylene. One pathway proceeds throughp-benzyl alcohol, p-tolualdehyde, and p-toluic acid to 2, 3-dihydroxy-p-toluic acid, and the other pathway results in ortho ring cleavage of 3, 6-dimethylpyrocatechol and hence accumulation of α,α′-dimethyl-cis, cis-muconic acid.

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