The present invention provides female sex hormone degrading bacteria belonging to the genus Novosphingobium, Sphingomonas or Ochrobactrum and having at least one of the property (a) the ability to degrade at least ethynylestradiol; the property (b) the ability to degrade at least 17β-estradiol and/or estrone, and having a degradation rate constant k1 for 17β-estradiol and/or estrone of 0.05 or more; and the property (c) the ability to degrade at least 17β-estradiol and/or estrone, and having the ability to decrease the concentration of 17β-estradiol and/or estrone, contained in wastewater, to less than 10 ng/L. These bacteria can efficiently degrade various female sex hormones, including recalcitrant synthetic female sex hormones, to such very low concentrations as not to affect the environment, and can easily be cultured and proliferated.
本发明提供属于Novosphingobium属、Sphingomonas属或Ochrobactrum属的雌性激素降解细菌,该细菌至少具有以下特性之一:(a)降解至少
乙炔雌二醇的能力;(b)降解至少17β-
雌二醇和/或
雌酮的能力,且17β-
雌二醇和/或
雌酮的降解速率常数k1为0.(c) 至少能降解 17β-estradiol 和/或
雌酮,并能将废
水中 17β-estradiol 和/或
雌酮的浓度降至 10 纳克/升以下。这些细菌能有效地降解各种雌性激素,包括难降解的合成雌性激素,降解浓度极低,不会对环境造成影响,而且易于培养和增殖。