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A bacterium having biodegrading activity with poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) was isolated from an activated sludge sample of a textile dyeing factory which deals with PVA. The bacterium was identified as a strain of Pseudomonas sp. and designated strain A-41. The results of the degradation of commercial PVA having atacticity altered triad-isotacticity from 21% to 13%. This suggests that the isotactic sequences in PVA are susceptible to biodegradation preferentially. PVA with high isotacticity was found to be easily degraded in comparison with commercial PVA.
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Fukae, R., Fujii, T., Takeo, M. et al. Biodegradation of Poly(vinyl alcohol) with High Isotacticity. Polym J 26, 1381–1386 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1295/polymj.26.1381
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