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C.G. Van Ginkel, E. De Jong, J.W.R. Tilanus, J.A.M. De Bont, Microbial oxidation of isoprene, a biogenic foliage volatile and of 1,3-butadiene, an anthropogenic gas, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 3, Issue 5, October 1987, Pages 275–279, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1987.tb02377.x
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Nocardia strains that were able to degrade isoprene were isolated from several locations using enrichment cultures with isoprene or 1,3-butadiene as the sole carbon and energy source. Specific growth rates of representative isolates on isoprene and 1,3-butadiene ranged from 0.05 to 0.2 h−1. The initial oxygenation of both 1,3-butadiene and isoprene was mediated by mono-oxygenases which converted these alkadienes into the respective epoxyalkanes.
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