The Biology of Hydrocarbons

McKenna, Emma; Kallio, R. E.

doi:10.1146/annurev.mi.19.100165.001151

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“…Thus these results suggest that hexadecane undergoes the following sequence of reactions in pea tissues: R CH3 R CH2OH -> R COOH -* Phospholipids. This mechanism of paraffin oxidation is very similar to that elucidated in the bacterial systems (12,15,16).…”

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Oxidation of Paraffins by Plant Tissues

Kolattukudy

1969

Plant Physiol.

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“…Temperature of the column and injector were 2200 and 350°respectively, and the carrier gas argon was supplied at 80 ml/min. plants like 'bacteria (12) possess the ability to oxidize the terminal methyl carbon of a paraffin, but the rate of utilization is much smaller in these plant tissues than in many bacterial species (4,12).…”

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Oxidation of Paraffins by Plant Tissues

Kolattukudy

1969

Plant Physiol.

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“…The metabolism of straight-chain hydrocarbons by micro-organisms has been reviewed by Foster (1962), Johnson (1967), McKenna &Kallio (1969, andThijsse (1965). It is generally agreed that the primary attack on n-alkanes is by oxidation of the terminal methyl group to a carboxyl group.…”

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The Isolation and Characterization of Alkane-oxidizing Organisms and the Effect of Growth Substrate on Isocitric Lyase

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Millis²

1970

Journal of General Microbiology

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SUMMARYA mycobacterium, two pseudomonads and a torula were isolated from soil using selective enrichment techniques in mineral salts-kerosene media. The properties of the organisms and their possible identity are outlined. Hydrocarbons, fatty acids, n-alcohols, dicarboxylic acids and acyl amides able to support growth were determined. Growth of the torula on hydrocarbons increased the ability of the organisms to oxidize other alkanes and fatty acids ; the organism was, however, able to oxidize these substrates, at a slow rate, irrespective of the substrate of growth. When the torula was grown on an alkane with an even number of carbon atoms, there was no evidence that the induced enzymes favoured the oxidation of fatty acids with even rather than odd numbers of carbon atoms.Growth on hydrocarbons increased the amount of isocitric lyase present in all four micro-organisms, suggesting that P-oxidation of fatty acids derived from alkanes gives rise to acetyl-CoA and that this pathway and the glyoxylate bypass are important in the metabolism of alkanes.

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“…These plant paraffins are generally found to have carbon chain-lengths of C27-C35, with C,, (nonacosane) one of the most abundant (Silva-Fernandes, Baker & Martin, 1964). Little is known about bacterial utilization of these plant paraffins although the bacterial degradation of petroleum paraffins (Clz to C1,) has been studied extensively (McKenna & Kallio, 1965). Many species of micro-organisms can grow on paraffins as a sole carbon source and attempts are being made to produce edible microbial proteins from petroleum (Champagnat, 1964).…”

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Metabolism of a Plant Wax Paraffin (n-Nonacosane) by a Soil Bacterium (Micrococcus cerificans)

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Kolattukudy

1968

Journal of General Microbiology

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S U M M A R YLong-chain paraffins, such as nonacosane, reach the soil from plants and are degraded by micro-organisms. The ability of one soil organism, Micrococcus ceriJicans, to grow on cabbage paraffin (n-nonacosane) was studied. Unlike the pattern seen with hexadecane, waxy esters were not produced when nonacosane was the sole carbon source, but esters were formed when a cooxidation technique of "*C] n-nonacosane with hexadecane was employed. The alcohol and acid portions of the radioactive esters formed were primarily of chain length Cis, G7 and C18; neither nonacosanol nor nonacosanoic acid were detected. Thus the nonacosanol and nonacosanoic acid which might have been produced from n-nonacosane must have been oxidized to shorterchain compounds which in turn were incorporated into waxy esters as well as other lipids.

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The Biology of Hydrocarbons

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Oxidation of Paraffins by Plant Tissues

Oxidation of Paraffins by Plant Tissues

The Isolation and Characterization of Alkane-oxidizing Organisms and the Effect of Growth Substrate on Isocitric Lyase

Metabolism of a Plant Wax Paraffin (n-Nonacosane) by a Soil Bacterium (Micrococcus cerificans)

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