Microbial Utilization of Hydrocarbons

Haas, H. F.; Yantzi, M. F.; Bushnell, L. D.

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“…Mycobacterium species studied by Haas et al (60) grew well on paraffin wax but not on gasoline and only poorly on kerosene. Conversely, a Pseudomonas species was observed which would grow on petroleum ether, gasoline and kerosene but not as readily on mineral oils or paraffin wax (60).…”

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“…24 studied by Haas (58) produced 2.14 mg of carotenoid pigments in 500 ml of oil within two weeks, imparting an orange color to the oil. A highly chromogenic strain of Proadtinomyces rubropertinctus was also isolated from water in oil storage tanks (60). Among the hydrocarbon oxidizers studied by S6hngen (121) red, orange and yellow pigments were produced by Mycobacterium rubrum, M. phlei and M. luteum, respectively.…”

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“…S6hngen (121) showed that paraffin was attacked by 17 different species of soil bacteria, paraffin wax being more readily attacked than petroleum ether, paraffin oil, crude petroleum or caoutchouc. The widespread occurrence of micro6rganisms which attack paraffin is attested by many observers (cf., (53,60,138,142,145,150,181)).…”

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Action of Microörganisms on Hydrocarbons 1

ZoBell

1946

Bacteriological Reviews

190

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Many micro6rganisms possess the ability of utilizing hydrocarbons as a sole source of energy in their metabolism. Gaseous, liquid and solid hydrocarbons in the aliphatic, olefinic and naphthenic series are susceptible to microbial decomposition. Nearly a hundred species of bacteria, yeasts and molds representing thirty genera have been described which attack one or more kinds of hydrocarbons. Such microbes appear to be quite widely and abundantly distributed in nature where they may be of considerable importance in the carbon cycle and to various industries. Wherever exposed to mineral solutions in which microbial life is possible, petroleum, rubber or other types of hydrocarbons may be slowly decomposed by micro6rganisms. The microbial oxidation of hydrocarbons may help to account for the rapid disappearance of petroleum which pollutes fields and waterways, for the deterioration of certain rubber products both natural and synthetic, for the spoilage of cooling oils, for the depreciation of oiled or asphalt-surfaced highways and for the modification of petroleum or its products stored in the presence of water. The failure of underground pipelines or electrical conduits "protected" from corrosion by paraffin-impregnated materials, elastomers or other hydrocarbon derivatives may be attributed in part to the activities of microorganisms which decompose hydrocarbons. Obtaining intermediate products of economic value such as fatty acids, for example, from the microbial decomposition of hydrocarbons, or employing micro-'Contribution from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, New Series No. 295. This report represents part of the activities of Research Project 43A sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute

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Action of Microörganisms on Hydrocarbons 1

ZoBell

1946

Bacteriological Reviews

190

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“…, Bacterium (Tausz and Peter, 1919;Tausz and Donath, 1930;Grey and Thornton, 1928), Pseudomonas (S6hngen, 1913;Grey and Thornton, 1928;Lee and Chandler, 1941;Haas, Yantzi, and Bushnell, 1941;Bushnell and Haas, 1941), Bacillus (Tausz and Peter, 1919; Grey and Thornton, 1928), and possibly others,-Bacterium aliphaticum, described by Tausz and Peter (1919), is outstanding. This organism, whose respiration and growth with hydrocarbon substrates has been more recently studied by Johnson, Goodale and Turkevich (1942), is apparently unable to metabolize aromatic hydrocarbons but will develop in simple inorganic media containing any one of numerous, highly purified aliphatic compounds, from pentane to paraffin oil.…”

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Carbohydrate Utilization by Hydrocarbon Bacteria

Johnson

Schwarz

1944

J Bacteriol

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“…Previous workers have detected fatty acid production from hydrocarbons (Bushnell and Haas, 1940 ;Haas, Yantzi and Bushnell, 1941 ;Johnson, Goodale and Turkevitch, 1942) using fall in pH as the criterion of acid formation. , and Strawinski and Stone (1943) have isolated ortho-salicylic acid as the oxidation product of cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa growing on naphthalene.…”

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Small‐scale studies of microbiological oxidation of hydrocarbons to long‐chain fatty acids

Lnday

Donald

1961

Biotechnol. Bioeng.

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S u m m r y . Several strains of Pseudomonas, Nocurdia and incompletely identified soil isolates have been grown in a mineral salts plus hydrocarbon medium, and the fatty acids produced by the organisms have been isolated, identified and estimated. The results of an estimation of the percentage conversion to these acids under varying experimental conditions is discussed in relation to the metabolic systems involved. Some indication has been obtained that the hydrocarbon breakdown pathway by these organisms is that of w oxidation followed by / 3 oxidation. Preliminary experiments carried out with one strain of organism, Pseudomonas aeruginosa 5940, indicate that there may be some difference in the utilization of odd-and evenchain hydrocarbons by this organism. An improvement of 3-8-fold was obtained by using nitrate instead of ammonium nitrogen ; 13-fold by using continuous instead of batch operation; and 8-fold by the use of liquid instead of solid paraffins, giving a total improvement of yield of 400-fold.

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Microbial Utilization of Hydrocarbons

Cited by 17 publications

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Action of Microörganisms on Hydrocarbons 1

Action of Microörganisms on Hydrocarbons 1

Carbohydrate Utilization by Hydrocarbon Bacteria

Small‐scale studies of microbiological oxidation of hydrocarbons to long‐chain fatty acids

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