Project description:Biodegradation is a sustainable green strategy that gives the opportunity for remediation of water contaminated with petroleum products. In this study, 12 bacterial isolates were recovered from River Nile, Egypt and screened for their potential to degrade a mixture of paraffinic petroleum crude oil. The most promising isolate was identified according to 16S rRNA sequencing as Janibacter terrae strain S1N1 (GenBank accession No. KX570955.1). In order to boost the biodegradation efficiency, the bacterial suspension was photostimulated by exposure to different irradiation doses using a low-power helium-neon (He-Ne) laser (λ = 632.8 nm). Maximum biodegradation was achieved after 4 min of exposure (134.07 J cm-2) at optimized pH value (6) and temperature (35 °C). The gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis revealed the biodegradation of 96.5% of the substrate after only 48 h of incubation. The n-C17/Pr and n-C18/Ph ratios indicated a preferential biodegradation of iso-paraffines over normal ones. Meanwhile, pristane/phytane (Pr/Ph) ratios were indicative of selective biodegradation for pristane. The carbon preference index (CPI) was nearly around unity indicating the ability of Janibacter terrae to attack the odd and even n-alkanes simultaneously. These results support the superiority of irradiated bacteria in optimizing the biodegradation efficiency and shortening the time of treatment, thus proposing an eco-friendly technique in water bioremediation programs.

| S-EPMC9089385 | biostudies-literature

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