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Improving the Effectiveness of Crude-Oil Hydrocarbon Biodegradation Employing Azotobacter chroococcum as Co-Inoculant

Microbiology Indonesia, 2010
Azotobacter chroococcum has a great potential as biosurfactant producing bacteria and was used as co-inoculant to promote the rate of hydrocarbon biodegradation.
PUJAWATI SURYATMANA PARNADI, EDWAN KARDENA, ENNY RATNANINGSIH, . WISJNUPRAPTO   +3 more
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Genomic characterization, kinetics, and pathways of sulfamethazine biodegradation by Paenarthrobacter sp. A01

Environment International, 2019
Biodegradation is an important route for the removal of sulfamethazine (SMZ), one of the most commonly used sulfonamide antibiotics, in the environment. However, little information is known about the kinetics, products, and pathways of SMZ biodegradation
Lijia Cao, Jiayu Zhang, Renxin Zhao, Yu Deng, Jie Liu, Wenjie Fu, Yusha Lei, Tong Zhang, Xiaoyan Li, Bing Li   +9 more
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Evaluation of crude oil biodegradation using mixed fungal cultures.

PLoS ONE, 2021
The use of potent fungal mixed cultures is a promising technique for the biodegradation of crude oil. Four isolates of fungi, namely, Alternaria alternata (AA-1), Aspergillus flavus (AF-3), Aspergillus terreus (AT-7), and Trichoderma harzianum (TH-5 ...
Abeer R M Abd El-Aziz, Monira R Al-Othman, Sameh M Hisham, Shereen M Shehata   +3 more
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Current bioinformatics tools for biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
The review summarizes different bioinformatics tools used in studying the degradation of various xenobiotic compounds. Databases and Pathway Prediction Systems are the key bioinformatics tools involved in biodegradation. Several bio-degradative databases
Pankaj Kumar Arora, Ashish Kumar, Alok Srivastava, Sanjay Kumar Garg, Vijay Pal Singh   +4 more
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Effect of the type of amino acid on the biodegradation of ibuprofen derivatives [PDF]

Archives of Environmental Protection, 2023
Water pollution caused by anthropogenic activity is a huge environmental problem. Huge amounts of consumed medicinal substances cause them to get into the environment.
Paula Elżbieta Ossowicz-Rupniewska, Edyta Kucharska, Joanna Klebeko, Ewelina Kopciuch, Karolina Bilska, Ewa Janus   +5 more
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Effects of biodegradation on diamondoid distribution in crude oils from the Bongor Basin, Chad

Energy Geoscience
The sensitivity of biodegradation on diamondoids was investigated using a series of biodegraded oil samples from the Ronier tectonic unit of Bongor Basin, Chad.
Huanxin Song, Menghan Chen, Lirong Dou, Dingsheng Cheng, Zhigang Wen   +4 more
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Effects of thermochemical pretreatment on the biodegradability of sludge from a biological wastewater treatment system [PDF]

Maejo International Journal of Science and Technology, 2010
The effects of thermochemical pretreatment on the sludge biodegradability were examined. Two types of tests were conducted: aerobic biodegradation and denitrification using thermochemically pretreated sludge as carbon source.
Ick-Tae Yeom
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Role of biochar in biodegradation of nonylphenol in sediment: Increasing microbial activity versus decreasing bioavailability

Scientific Reports, 2017
The observed strong sorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants (HOCs) to biochar presents potential implications for HOCs bioavailability and bioaccessibility in sediments, while biochar could impact sediment microbial ecology.
Guanghuan Cheng, Mingyang Sun, Jingrang Lu, Xinlei Ge, Huihui Zhang, Xinhua Xu, Liping Lou, Qi Lin   +7 more
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Optimization of Biodegradation Characteristics of Sphingopyxis sp. YF1 against Crude Microcystin-LR Using Response Surface Methodology

Toxins, 2022
Sphingopyxis sp. YF1 has proven to be efficient in biodegrading microcystin (MC)-leucine (L) and arginine (R) (MC-LR); however, the optimal environmental factors to biodegrade the toxin have not been investigated.
Isaac Yaw Massey, Tangjian Peng, Cai Danping, Fei Yang   +3 more
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Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini, Nicolò Antonelli, Gianluca Molla   +2 more
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