Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants

This study visualizes Desulfobacterota ORM2 cells using FISH, revealing their spatial organization and potential role in growth lag phases in a methanogenic culture.

The paper demonstrates the use of an engineered environmental plasmid to enable terephthalate degradation in soil by transferring synthetic genes to resident bacteria.

This study evolves bacterial biofilms to enhance polyethylene degradation, finding that evolved communities outperform ancestors through synergistic interactions and metabolic division of labor.

The paper identifies microbial communities capable of degrading medium- and long-chain alkanes and their oxidized derivatives in polyethylene, revealing the presence of these compounds in the model PE material.

This study uses sub-community analysis and machine learning to predict and interpret microbial community functions, showing that small sub-communities can predict larger community functions.

This study evaluates the effectiveness of Pleurotus ostreatus and Eisenia fetida in reducing hydrocarbon levels in crude oil-polluted soil, finding mushrooms significantly outperform earthworms in hydrocarbon reduction.

This study identifies two Cycloclasticus variants with distinct hydrocarbon metabolism capabilities linked to oceanic and seep environments, revealing their ecological roles in hydrocarbon cycling.

This study compares the kinetic properties of three closely related chloroalkane reductive dehalogenases, revealing distinct substrate preferences and inhibition sensitivities with implications for bioremediation.

The paper examines hydrocarbon-degrading microbial responses in deep-sea sediments to naphtha amendment, finding that seep sediments remove BTEX compounds more effectively than non-seep sediments.

The paper investigates how nutrient addition affects Arctic marine microbial communities in oil-spill microcosms, identifying novel bacteria potentially involved in hydrocarbon degradation.

This study identifies novel hydrocarbon-degrading microbes in the ocean using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, revealing clade-specific degradation capabilities in uncultured microbes.

This study tracks the fate of 13C-labelled pollutant-degrading inoculum in two soils using DNA-SIP, revealing differences in predation effects and inoculum establishment between short-term and long-term polluted soils.

The paper identifies a bacterial pathway for degrading 1-naphthylamine, revealing an enzyme that catalyzes its glutamylation and elucidates the mechanism and evolution of the pathway.

This study identifies a new bacterium capable of degrading pentachlorobiphenyl and characterizes its enzymatic, proteomic, and metabolomic responses to the pollutant.

The paper identifies functional genes in a microbial consortium that dechlorinates chloroform to dichloromethane and mineralizes dichloromethane, using metagenomic and metaproteomic analysis.

This study investigates how soil bacteria respond to PUREX chemicals, identifying tributyl phosphate as a contaminant that significantly alters microbial communities and potentially enables bioremediation through phosphotriesterase genes.

This study identifies three microbial taxa with genetic potential to degrade monoaromatic compounds in subsurface coal seams, including a novel Krumholzibacteriota species.

This paper shows that Rhodopseudomonas palustris evolved to degrade 3-chlorobenzoate through a regulatory mutation and a promiscuous enzyme variant with enhanced specificity.

The paper discovers a recently evolved bacterial pathway for degrading TRIS, a synthetic buffer, through horizontal gene transfer and shows its global distribution.

The paper identifies rhamnolipid methyl esters produced by postfire microbes that enhance antimicrobial activity, motility, and nutrient solubilization, revealing their multifunctional role in postfire adaptation.

This study uses bioaugmentation with Lambertella sp. MUT 5852 to decontaminate and detoxify dredged sediments, achieving complete petroleum hydrocarbon depletion in 28 days.

The paper characterizes microbial communities on tar patties and control surfaces after an offshore oil spill, showing their role in hydrocarbon degradation and nitrogen fixation in the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea.

This paper demonstrates a mixed microbial culture that can simultaneously degrade chloroform and dichloromethane to carbon dioxide without exogenous electron donor, suggesting intraspecies electron transfer for CF respiration.

HADEG is a curated database of hydrocarbon aerobic degradation enzymes and genes based on experimental evidence, containing 259, 160, and 32 entries for petroleum, plastic, and biosurfactant degradation, respectively.

The paper classifies tfd gene clusters into four types using comparative genomic and phylogenetic analysis, revealing their evolutionary relationships and structural variations.

The paper analyzes fruit-waste fermentation samples to identify biosurfactant-producing microbes using metagenomic sequencing and integrates BiosurfDB into MEGAN for interactive exploration.

The paper presents the complete genome sequence of Rhodococcus sp. USK10, which can fully mineralize Benzophenone-3, a UV filter harmful to aquatic life.

CANT-HYD provides a database of HMMs for annotating hydrocarbon degradation marker genes, showing widespread metabolic potential and scalability in metagenomic analysis.

This study compares how a marine microbial community responds to crude oil with synthetic or biogenic surfactants, finding that synthetic dispersants enhance oil degradation but reduce microbial diversity.

The paper identifies a new Asgard archaea phylum, Hermodarchaeota, capable of degrading alkanes and aromatics via alkyl/benzyl-succinate synthase and benzoyl-CoA pathway in anaerobic sediments.