Amycolatopsis sp. Poz14 isolated from oil-contaminated soil degrades polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Biodegradation of anthracene by a newly isolated bacterial strain,Bacillus thuringiensisAT.ISM.1, isolated from a fly ash deposition site

“…Haldane model projected the substrate inhibition constant value more accurately (K i = 18Á755 mg l À1 , above which the specific growth and substrate degradation rates fall) and the K i value have similarity with the experimentally obtained value of 16 mg l À1 . It is worth mentioning that while seeking for similar reports to compare the model parameter values acquired from the earlier studies (Cheung et al 2008;Santos et al 2008;Zebulun et al 2010;Arulazhagan and Vasudevan 2011;Ahmed et al 2012;Cui et al 2014;Salam et al 2014;Swaathy et al 2014;Ntougias et al 2015;Ortega-Gonzalez et al 2015), we found no similar bacterial growth kinetic report on anthracene.…”

“…(Fu et al 2014), by Amycolatopsis sp. (Ortega-Gonzalez et al 2015), by wood rot fungus Pycnoporus sanguineus (Shimin Zhang et al 2015) etc. Derivatives of anthraquinone, phthalic acid, benzoic acid, propionic acid, coumarin, catechol etc.…”

From oil spills to barley growth – oil‐degrading soil bacteria and their promoting effects

“…Naphthalene was also a poor or no substrate for other alkane and oil degrading rodococci such as R. aetherivorans , R . erythropolis , R. fascians , R. opacus , and other unspecified strains of Rhodococcus as well as Gordonia alkanivorans , G. amarae , G. amicalis , G. hydrophobica , G. paraffinivorans and other unspecified gordoniae , whereas other strains of gordoniae and rodococci can utilize naphthalene as the sole carbon source . With these different results of naphthalene degradation of R .…”

“…Several hydrocarbon utilizing gordoniae among them G. ajoucoccus , G . alkanivorans, G. amicalis , G. hirsuta , G. paraffinivorans , G. rubripertincta , G. terrae , and unspecified species of Gordonia as well as Rhodococcus aetherivorans , R. baikonurensis , R. equi , R. erythropolis , R. fascians , R. phenolicus , R. rhodochrous , R. ruber , R. wratislaviensis , and other unspecified rhodococci have been isolated from oil‐contaminated sludge, sediments, sea‐ and stratal water, sand and soil . The contaminated samples were taken from oilfields in Tartastan, western Siberia, different parts of China, South Korea, and Kuwait, from offshore oil and gas platforms in the North Atlantic (Canada), from oil‐contaminated sediments and seawater in the Persian Gulf, in the Caspian Sea and of the northern coast of Tunisia and from oil‐contaminated areas of northeast Brazil, of southeast Mexico, of the west coast of Sicily (Italy), of different sites of France, of central Germany, of central and south Taiwan, of different parts of Korea and Japan, of the western portion of Pampanga (Philippines) and of different sites of Antarctica.…”

“…The species G. terrae SBUG 2053 and R. erythropolis SBUG 2052 were not able to produce detectable naphthalene metabolites. Naphthalene was also a poor or no substrate for other alkane and oil degrading rodococci such as R. aetherivorans, R. erythropolis, R. fascians, R. opacus, and other unspecified strains of Rhodococcus as well as Gordonia alkanivorans, G. amarae, G. amicalis, G. hydrophobica, G. paraffinivorans and other unspecified gordoniae [88,93,125,126], whereas other strains of gordoniae and rodococci can utilize naphthalene as the sole carbon source [77,93,126]. With these different results of naphthalene degradation of R. erythropolis strains and the different results of pristane degradation of our R. erythropolis strains we show that the variation of the transformation capacity between different R. erythropolis strains is enormous suggesting that different biovars should be created.…”