Acinetobacter strains

Asperger O, A Nanmann, H-P Kleber (1981) Occnrrence of cytochrome P-450 in Acinetobacter strains after growth on n-hexadecane. FEMS Microbiol Lett 11 309-312. 

The complete degradation of isoquinoline has not been reported, which indicates that this molecule is not as susceptible to degradation as quinoline. Aislabie et al. [336] found that using an Acinetobacter strain, the degradation of isoquinoline was accompanied by the accumulation of 1-hydroxyisoquinoline. This strain did not metabolize 1,5-dihydroxyisoquinoline nor 1-methylisoquinoline. So, its inability for full degradation was explained in terms of steric hindrance. The enrichment technique leads to a metabolic improvement but results in complete degradation. 

Furukawa, K., Matsumura, F. Tonomura, K. (1978b). Alcaligenes and Acinetobacter strains capable of degrading polychlorinated biphenyls. Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, 42(3), 543-8. 

C. F. C. Bonting, G. J. J. Kortstee and A. J. B. Zehnder (1993a). The elemental composition dynamics of large polyphosphate granules in Acinetobacter strain 210A. Arch. Microbiol., 159, 428-434. 

The Baeyer-Villiger reaction is also effected by biochemical oxidation using the enzyme cyclohexanone oxygenase from Acinetobacter strain NCIB 9871. Cyclohexanone is thus converted into e-caprolactone [1043], and phenylacetone (l-phenyl-2-propanone) is transformed into benzyl acetate. The formation of benzyl acetate from phenylacetone involves the same migration as that in oxidation with peroxytrifluoroacetic acid (equation 387) [1034]. More examples of biochemical Baeyer-Villiger reactions occur in diketones and steroids see equation 397). 

Phenols are also obtained by oxidation of phenylboronic acids with cyclohexanone oxygenase produced by Acinetobacter strain NCIB 9871 (equation 606) 1034. ... 

Furukawa, K., F. Matsumara, and K. Tonomura. 1978. Alcaligenes and Acinetobacter strains capable of degrading polychlorinated biophenyls. Agric. Biol. Chem. 42 543-548. Furukawa, K., N. Tomizuka, and A. Kamibayashi. 1979. Effect of chlorine substitution on the bacterial metabolism of various polychlorinated biphenyls. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 38 301-310. 

The Acinetobacter strain from which CHMO is derived is a Class II pathogen as defined by the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP), and hence, may only be handled in suitably equipped microbiological facilities. One solution to... 

Sar and Rosenberg 1983 reported that the majority of Acinetobacter strains produce extracellular nondialyzable emulsifiers. These strains included both soil and hospital isolates. Marin et al. 1996 have reported the isolation of a strain of A. calcoaceticus from contaminated heating oil that emulsifies that substrate. Neufeld and Zajic 1984 demonstrated that whole cells of A. calcoaceticus 2CA2 have the ability to act as emulsifiers, in addition to producing an extracellular emulsifier. 

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