Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium
Yakimov, Michail M. and Golyshin, Peter N. and Lang, Siegmund and Moore, Edward R. B. and Abraham, Wolf-Rainer and Lünsdorf, Heinrich and Timmis, Kenneth N.,, 48, 339-348 (1998),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-2-339,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 1466-5026,
abstract= During screening for biosurfactant-producing, n-alkane-degrading marine bacteria, six heterotrophic bacterial strains were isolated from enriched mixed cultures, obtained from sea water/sediment samples collected near the Isle of Borkum (North Sea), using Mihagol-S (C14,15-n-alkanes) as principal carbon source. These Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped bacteria use a limited number of organic compounds, including aliphatic hydrocarbons, volatile fatty acids, and pyruvate and its methyl ether. During cultivation on n-alkanes as sole source of carbon and energy, all strains produced both extracellular and cell-bound surface-active glucose lipids which reduced the surface tension of water from 72 to 29 mNm-1(16). This novel class of glycolipids was found to be produced only by these strains. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that these strains are all members of the γ-subclass of the Proteobacteria. Their phospholipid ester-linked fatty acid composition was shown to be similar to that of members of the genus Halomonas, although they did not demonstrate a close phylogenetic relationship to any previously described species. On the basis of the information summarized above, a new genus and species, Alcanivorax borkumensis, is described to include these bacteria. Strain SK2Tis the type strain of A. borkumensis.,
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