Cresol is an organic pollutant
discharged by pharmaceutical, pesticide, coal and gasification
industries causing severe organ failure in humans. Therefore, it is
of interest to isolate microbes from contaminated site for degrading
cresol. We isolated a strain (CR-13) that
survives at 5000ppm cresol with about 80% cresol degradation
ability. Immobilized cells showed >99% degradation at high
concentration of cresol. The 16S rRNA sequence (accession number:
MF278026) deposited in GenBank was used for phylogenetic tree
analysis and the strain was grouped under Pseudomonas monteilii. The
isolated cresol degrading strain was subsequently named as
Pseudomonas monteilii SHY.

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