Murata K, Higaki N, Kimura A
Research Institute for Food Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1988 Nov 30;157(1):190-5. doi: 10.1016/s0006-291x(88)80031-7.
The bacterium Enterobacter aerogenes could grow on a medium containing alkylphosphonic acid as a phosphorus source. The extracts prepared from the cells grown on phosphonoacetic acid as a sole source of phosphorus showed an activity of carbon-phosphorus lyase and hydrolyzed methyl-phosphonic acid, phosphonoacetic acid and phenylphosphonic acid with a liberation of inorganic phosphates.