Affiliation:
1. Tenneco Chemical Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
Abstract
An organism isolated from soil samples collected near a terpene plant grew in the presence of 1-menthene, with no other major source of carbon and energy. The organism was tentatively identified as a member of the genus
Cladosporium
. When this organism was grown in the presence of 1-menthene, with no other major source of carbon, substantial quantities of β-isopropyl glutaric acid accumulated in the fermentation medium. β-Isopropyl glutaric acid is probably an end product of the degradation of 1-menthene by the organism.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine