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FEMS Microbiol Lett
; 78(2-3): 221-6, 1992 Dec 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1490602
ABSTRACT
Azo dyes are recalcitrant pollutants. Two sulfonated azo dyes, Orange II and Amido black, are effectively decolorized by certain nocardioform strains of the genus Rhodococcus. A mutant of one of these strains was isolated which had lost azo-dye decolorizing ability and the strain was used to clone DNA conferring this ability, by screening a BclI library constructed from DNA of a decolorizing strain. The relevant genetic information was located on a 6.3-kb fragment of DNA.