The biodegradation and responses of detoxification enzymes in the freshwater green algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, upon exposure to 10 mg/L concentration of aniline were investigated. Results showed that aniline was metabolized, and bioaccumulation and adsorption were 1.2%. The removal of aniline over an 8-day period in the control medium and with the group of ABT was 32% and 35%, respectively. With algae culture the removal of aniline was 56%. About up to 24% of total aniline was biodegraded or biotransformed by C. reinhardtii in 8 days. C. reinhardtii biotransformed aniline into acetylaminobenzene and the cytochrome P-450 was the key enzyme in the metabolic pathway.
Aniline; Degradation, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Detoxification, Enzyme, N-acetylation
© The Author(s) 2014. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.