Pollution of soil and water environments by crude oil has been, and is still today, an
important problem. Crude oil is a complex mixture of thousands of compounds. Among them …

This review focuses on the role and distribution in the environment of alkane hydroxylases
and their (potential) applications in bioremediation and biocatalysis. Alkane hydroxylases …

In this work, the biodegradation of the crude oil by the potential biosurfactant producing
Bacillus subtilis A1 was investigated. The isolate had the ability to synthesize degradative …

Biocatalysis is an enabling technology adding to organic oxidation chemistry. Especially the
high selectivity of enzymatic oxidation coevally operating under mild conditions and not …

Degradation of alkanes is a widespread phenomenon in nature, and numerous
microorganisms, both prokaryotic and eukaryotic, capable of utilizing these substrates as a …

The genus Rhodococcus is a very diverse group of bacteria that possesses the ability to
degrade a large number of organic compounds, including some of the most difficult …

The complete genome sequence of Geobacillus thermodenitrificans NG80-2, a thermophilic
bacillus isolated from a deep oil reservoir in Northern China, consists of a 3,550,319-bp …

Soil bacterial population dynamics were examined in several crude-oil-contaminated soils to
identify those organisms associated with alkane degradation and to assess patterns in …

Several strains that grow on medium-chain-length alkanes and catalyze interesting
hydroxylation and epoxidation reactions do not possess integral membrane nonheme iron …

The field of Rhodococcus cell engineering is rapidly advancing because of the availability of
improved genetic tools and increased insights in their broad catabolic and biochemical …