Degradation of steroids by microorganism
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R. Komel; H. Groh; Dr. C. HΓΆrhold
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The aerobic side chain degradation of sterols often leads to mixtures of 1,4βdiene and 4βene compounds. By an additional anaerobic step a practically complete reverse reaction of the steroidβ1βdehydrogenation occurs yielding only the corresponding 4βene compound.