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  2. Hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Biosurfactants: [19] The contact between bacteria and hydrocarbons is fundamental because the first degradative step involves the use of oxygenase. Contact is favored by adhesion and emulsifying mechanisms [20] Bacteria that break down hydrocarbons often produce bioemulsifiers as secondary metabolites. These can be divided into low molecular ...

  3. Bioremediation of oil spills - Wikipedia

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    Various types of bacteria, archaea, algae, fungi, and some species of plants are all able to break down specific toxic waste products into safer constituents. Bioremediation is classified by the organism responsible for remediation with three major subdivisions: microbial remediation, phytoremediation, and mycoremediation. [18]

  4. Petroleum microbiology - Wikipedia

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    Petroleum microbiology is a branch of microbiology that deals with the study of microorganisms that can metabolize or alter crude or refined petroleum products.These microorganisms, also called hydrocarbonoclastic microorganisms, can degrade hydrocarbons and, include a wide distribution of bacteria, methanogenic archaea, and some fungi.

  5. Alcanivorax borkumensis - Wikipedia

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    Most efforts so far use direct human involvement/labor to physically remove the oil from the environment. However, A. borkumensis presents a possible alternative. Since A. borkumensis naturally breaks down oil molecules to a nonpolluting state, it would help ecosystems to quickly recover from an oil spill disaster. The organisms also naturally ...

  6. Bioremediation - Wikipedia

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    At this site, microorganisms break down the carcinogenic compound trichloroethylene (TCE), which is a process seen in previous studies. [14] Bioremediation can be carried out by bacteria that are naturally present. In biostimulation, the population of these helpful bacteria can be increased by adding nutrients. [6] [15]

  7. Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Wikipedia

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    It is also able to decompose hydrocarbons and has been used to break down tarballs and oil from oil spills. [5] P. aeruginosa is not extremely virulent in comparison with other major species of pathogenic bacteria such as Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes – though P. aeruginosa is capable of extensive colonization ...

  8. A gut health scientist and chef eats fermented foods every ...

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    EVOO is high in polyphenols, a compound responsible for the pigment in lots of plants that research suggests gut microbes break down into beneficial molecules, she said. And to make it even more ...

  9. Microbial biodegradation - Wikipedia

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    Microbial biodegradation is the use of bioremediation and biotransformation methods to harness the naturally occurring ability of microbial xenobiotic metabolism to degrade, transform or accumulate environmental pollutants, including hydrocarbons (e.g. oil), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), heterocyclic compounds (such as pyridine or quinoline ...