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Short communication: Bacillus cereus capable of degrading SDS shows growth with a variety of detergents

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A strain of Bacillus cereus was isolated from a detergent-polluted pond. This strain showed growth with exceedingly high concentration of both anionic and non-ionic detergents. Detergent such as SDS was rapidly taken up by the cells and degraded to dodecan-1-ol by the enzyme alkylsulphatase.

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  1. Microbial Biotechnology Unit, School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-, 221 005, India

    Kusum Lata Singh, Arvind Kumar & Ashok Kumar

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Singh, K.L., Kumar, A. & Kumar, A. Short communication: Bacillus cereus capable of degrading SDS shows growth with a variety of detergents. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 14, 777–779 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008883915003

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