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 …

Over the past few years, a new and ecophysiologically unusual group of marine
hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria–the obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (OHCB)–has …

Crude oil contaminant is one of the major problem to environment and its removal process
considered as most challenging tool currently across the world. In this degradation study …

AlkB and CYP153 are important alkane hydroxylases responsible for aerobic alkane
degradation in bioremediation of oil-polluted environments and microbial enhanced oil …

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

Alcanivorax borkumensis is a cosmopolitan marine bacterium that uses oil hydrocarbons as
its exclusive source of carbon and energy. Although barely detectable in unpolluted …

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 …

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

Two bacterial strains, B-5T and NO1A, were isolated from the surface water of the Bohai Sea
and deep-sea sediment of the east Pacific Ocean, respectively. Both strains were halophilic …