Biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons by psychrotrophic Pseudomonas strains possessing both alkane (alk) and naphthalene (nah) catabolic pathways

DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.63.9.3719-3723.1997
Author	Search for: Whyte, Lyle G.¹; Search for: Bourbonnière, Luc¹; Search for: Greer, Charles W.¹
Name affiliation	National Research Council of Canada. NRC Biotechnology Research Institute
Format	Text, Article
Abstract	Three hydrocarbon-degrading psychrotrophic bacteria were isolated from petroleum-contaminated Arctic soils and characterized. Two of the strains, identiﬁed as Pseudomonas spp., degraded C₅ to C₁₂ n-alkanes, toluene, and naphthalene at both 5 and 25°C and possessed both the alk catabolic pathway for alkane biodegradation and the nah catabolic pathway for polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon biodegradation. One of these strains contained both a plasmid slightly smaller than the P. oleovorans OCT plasmid, which hybridized to an alkB gene probe, and a NAH plasmid similar to NAH7, demonstrating that both catabolic pathways, located on separate plasmids, can naturally coexist in the same bacterium
Publication date	1997-09
In	Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63, no. 9 (September 1997): 3719–3723.
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
NRC number	40504
NPARC number	3538628
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