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A highly enriched denitrifying mixed culture transformedo-xylene cometabolically along with toluene by methyl group oxidation.o-Methyl benzaldehyde ando-methyl benzoic acid accumulated transiently as metabolic products ofo-xylene transformation. Transformation ofo-methyl benzyl alcohol ando-methyl benzaldehyde occurred independently of toluene degradation and resulted in the formation of a compound coeluting witho-methyl benzoic acid on a gas chromatograph. The cometabolic relationship between toluene ando-xylene could be attributed to a mechanism linked to the initial oxidation of the methyl group.
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Jørgensen, C., Nielsen, B., Jensen, B.K. et al. Transformation ofo-xylene too-methyl benzoic acid by a denitrifying enrichment culture using toluene as the primary substrate. Biodegradation 6, 141–146 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00695344
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