Pollution of soil and water environments by crude oil has been, and is still today, an
important problem. Crude oil is a complex mixture of thousands of compounds. Among them …

Widespread pollution of terrestrial ecosystems with petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) has
generated a need for remediation and, given that many PHCs are biodegradable, bio-and …

Many hypersaline environments are often contaminated with petroleum compounds. Among
these, oil and natural gas production sites all over the world and hundreds of kilometers of …

A mesophilic bacterium capable of Low-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene (LMWPE)
biodegradation was isolated from a beach soil having been contaminated extensively with …

Enzymatic hydroxylation of activated and nonactivated sp3-carbons attracts keen interest
from the chemistry community as it is one of the most challenging tasks in organic synthesis …

AlkB and CYP153 are important alkane hydroxylases responsible for aerobic alkane
degradation in bioremediation of oil-polluted environments and microbial enhanced oil …

Degradation of alkanes is a widespread phenomenon in nature, and numerous
microorganisms, both prokaryotic and eukaryotic, capable of utilizing these substrates as a …

Crude oil (petroleum) is a highly complex mixture of organic compounds of which some 1.3
million litres enters the environment each year. More then anything else, the numerous oil …

A novel bacterial strain, DQ12-45-1b, was isolated from the production water of a deep
subterranean oil-reservoir. Morphological, physiological and phylogenetic analyses …

Monooxygenases are enzymes that catalyze the insertion of a single oxygen atom from O2
into an organic substrate. In order to carry out this type of reaction, these enzymes need to …