Conversion of cyanide to formate and ammonia by a pseudomonad obtained from industrial wastewater |
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Authors: | J M White D D Jones D Huang J J Gauthier |
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Institution: | (1) Biology Department, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294 Birmingham, AL, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary A cyanide-degrading pseudomonad was isolated by selective enrichment in a chemostat inoculated with coke-plant activated sludge and maintained at a dilution rate of 0.042/h for 60 days with a feed of 10 mg/l cyanide. The isolate, a facultative methylotroph capable of growth on methanol and methylamine, degraded cyanide to formate and ammonia; it could utilize the released ammonia as a nitrogen source but did not further metabolize formate under the experimental conditions employed. Both cyanide-degrading enzyme activity and respiratory resistance to cyanide were inducible and were enhanced by repeated exposure to the compound. Cell-free extracts stoichiometrically converted cyanide to formate and ammonia in a reaction that did not require oxygen. Enzyme activity, lost upon dialysis, was restored by less than equimolar ratios of NAD(P)H or ascorbate to cyanide, indicating that the reductants did not function directly as co-enzymes. |
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Keywords: | Adaptation to cyanide Cyanide degradation Formate Pseudomonad Industrial wastewater |
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