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 …

Widespread pollution of terrestrial ecosystems with petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) has
generated a need for remediation and, given that many PHCs are biodegradable, bio-and …

Metabolically versatile free-living bacteria have global regulation systems that allow cells to
selectively assimilate a preferred compound among a mixture of several potential carbon …

Antibiotics that interfere with DNA replication and cell viability activate the SOS response. In
Staphylococcus aureus, the antibiotic-induced SOS response promotes replication and high …

Alkanes are major constituents of crude oil. They are also present at low concentrations in
diverse non-contaminated because many living organisms produce them as chemo …

Transcriptional activation of many bacterial promoters in their natural environment is not a
simple on/off decision. The expression of cognate genes is integrated in layers of iterative …

Twenty-six different plant species were analyzed regarding their performance in soil
contaminated with petroleum oil. Two well-performing species, Italian ryegrass (Lolium …

Alkane-degrading bacteria are ubiquitous in marine environments, but little is known about
how alkane degradation is regulated. Here we investigate alkane sensing, chemotaxis …

The accuracy of mRNA quantification by reverse transcription (RT) in conjunction with real-
time PCR (qPCR) is limited by mRNA losses during sample preparation (cell lysis, RNA …

Because of the high diversity of hydrocarbons, degradation of each class of these
compounds is activated by a specific enzyme. However, most of other downstream enzymes …