Alcanivorax borkumensis

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Alcanivorax borkumensis
Systematics
Department : Proteobacteria
Class : Gammaproteobacteria
Order : Oceanospirillales
Family : Alcanivoracaceae
Genre : Alcanivorax
Type : Alcanivorax borkumensis
Scientific name
Alcanivorax borkumensis
Yakimov et al., 1998

Alcanivorax borkumensis is a bacterium that can use a wide range of hydrocarbons and is therefore able tobreak down petroleum . It belongs to the hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria .

The bacterium assimilates only a few simple amino acids or sugars and can only use hydrocarbons (from C 5 to C 32 ) and their derivatives as an energy source , so it is obligatorily hydrogenoclastic. The microorganism was discovered near the island of Borkum (hence the epithet borkumensis ) by scientists from the Society for Biotechnological Research and the Technical University of Braunschweig. In 2006, scientists from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research , the University of Bielefeld and the Technical University of Braunschweig determined the base sequence of the bacterium's genome .

The microorganism is considered to be ubiquitous , as Alcanivorax strains have been detected in 40 to 50 places in the oceans worldwide . The bacterium is rarely found in clean seawater, but can make up up to 90 percent of the total bacterial population in oil-polluted habitats. It is considered one of the most important petroleum-degrading bacteria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michail M. Yakimov, Peter N. Golyshin, Siegmund Lang, Edward RB Moore, Wolf-Rainer Abraham: Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. Nov., Sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium . In: International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology . tape 48 , no. 2 , 1998, p. 339-348 , doi : 10.1099 / 00207713-48-2-339 .
  2. ↑ Susanne Schneiker, Vítor AP Martins dos Santos, Daniela Bartels, Thomas Bekel, Martina Brecht, Jens Buhrmester, Tatyana N. Chernikova, Renata Denaro, Manuel Ferrer, Christoph Gertler, Alexander Goesmann, Olga V. Golyshina, Filip Kaminski, Amit N. Khachane, Siegmund Lang, Burkhard Linke, Alice C. McHardy, Folker Meyer, Taras Nechitaylo, Alfred Pühler, Daniela Regenhardt, Oliver Rupp, Julia S. Sabirova, Werner Selbitschka, Michail M. Yakimov, Kenneth N. Timmis, Frank-Jörg Vorhölter , Stefan Weidner, Olaf Kaiser, Peter N. Golyshin: Genome sequence of the ubiquitous hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis . In: Nature Biotechnology Vol. 24, 2006, pp. 997-1004. doi : 10.1038 / nbt1232 .

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