{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Bako CM"],"funding":["NIEHS NIH HHS","NIEHS"],"pagination":["116364"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8183161"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["271"],"pubmed_abstract":["Experiments were conducted to measure biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners contained in mixture Aroclor 1248 and congeners present in wastewater lagoon sediment contaminated decades earlier at Altavista, Virginia. A well-characterized strain of aerobic PCB-degrading bacteria, Paraburkholderia xenovorans LB400 was incubated in laboratory bioreactors with PCB-contaminated sediment collected at the site. The experiments evaluated strain LB400's ability to degrade PCBs in absence of sediment and in PCB-contaminated sediment slurry. In absence of sediment, LB400 transformed 76% of Aroclor 1248 within seven days, spanning all homolog groups present in the mixture. In sediment slurry, only mono- and di-chlorinated PCB congeners were transformed. These results show that LB400"],"journal":["Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)"],"pubmed_title":["Biodegradation of PCB congeners by Paraburkholderia xenovorans LB400 in presence and absence of sediment during lab bioreactor experiments."],"pmcid":["PMC8183161"],"funding_grant_id":["P42 ES013661"],"pubmed_authors":["Hornbuckle KC","Schnoor JL","Bako CM","Mattes TE","Marek RF"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Biodegradation of PCB congeners by Paraburkholderia xenovorans LB400 in presence and absence of sediment during lab bioreactor experiments.","description":"Experiments were conducted to measure biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners contained in mixture Aroclor 1248 and congeners present in wastewater lagoon sediment contaminated decades earlier at Altavista, Virginia. A well-characterized strain of aerobic PCB-degrading bacteria, Paraburkholderia xenovorans LB400 was incubated in laboratory bioreactors with PCB-contaminated sediment collected at the site. The experiments evaluated strain LB400's ability to degrade PCBs in absence of sediment and in PCB-contaminated sediment slurry. In absence of sediment, LB400 transformed 76% of Aroclor 1248 within seven days, spanning all homolog groups present in the mixture. In sediment slurry, only mono- and di-chlorinated PCB congeners were transformed. These results show that LB400","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Feb","modification":"2026-05-09T03:25:10.613Z","creation":"2025-02-18T23:32:35.106Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8183161","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33412450"],"doi":["10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116364"]}}