Abstract:Phosphorus is an essential element for all living cells and is usually taken up in the form of phosphate. A number of microorganisms, however, are capable of extracting phosphorous from organic phosphonate compounds, which are characterized by a stable carbon-phosphorus (C-P) bond (1). The metabolic pathway responsible for phosphonate degradation is still poorly understood, but the process is known to involve two reactions before the actual C-P bond cleavage, which has been proposed to take place via a radical… Show more
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