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SUBMITTER: Whyte LG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC168679 | biostudies-other | 1997 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Applied and environmental microbiology 19970901 9
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 degrees 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 ...[more]