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The white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium Burdsall degraded DDT [1,1-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2, 2,2-trichloroethane] in submerged agitated cultures. The ability of the fungus to metabolize this persistent environmental pollutant is not dependent on the formation of its extracellular lignin-degrading enzyme system.
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Dedicated to Professor E.-E. Bruchmann on the occasion of his 65th birthday
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Köhler, A., Jäger, A., Willershausen, H. et al. Extracellular ligninase of Phanerochaete chrysosporium Burdsall has no role in the degradation of DDT. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 29, 618–620 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00260994
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