Article
Molecular detection and diversity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria isolated from geographically diverse sites.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology - 1 Feb 2002
Widada J, Nojiri H, Kasuga K, Yoshida T, Habe H, Omori T
Abstract excerpt
Nineteen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading bacteria were isolated from environmental samples in Kuwait, Indonesia, Thailand, and Japan by enrichment with either naphthalene or phenanthrene as a sole carbon source. Sequence analyses of the 16-S rRNA gene indicated that at least seven genera (Ralstonia, Sphingomonas, Burkholderia, Pseudomonas, Comamonas, Flavobacterium, and Bacillus) were present in...
Topics
- Asia
- Bacteria
- Biodegradation, Environmental
- Blotting, Southern
- Culture Media
- Environmental Microbiology
- Genes, rRNA
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oxygenases
- Phenotype
- Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S