ArticleMicrobial biotechnology2012
Whole-cell bacterial bioreporter for actively searching and sensing of alkanes and oil spills.
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- Synthetic Biology of Plants and Microbes for Agriculture, Environment, and Future Applications.Chemical reviews · 2026Review
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- Development of a whole-cell biosensor for ethylene oxide and ethylene.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Article
- Whole-Cell Microbial Bioreporter for Soil Contaminants Detection.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Review
- Synthetic Biology Approaches to Hydrocarbon Biosensors: A Review.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Review
- iTRAQ-Based Comparative Proteomic Analysis ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Advances of magnetic nanoparticles in environmental application: environmental remediation and (bio)sensors as case studies.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Review
- Production of alkanes from COBiotechnology for biofuels · 2018Article
- Reduced Mutation Rate and Increased Transformability of Transposon-Free Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1-ISx.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- The Application of Whole Cell-Based Biosensors for Use in Environmental Analysis and in Medical Diagnostics.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
- Biobased production of alkanes and alkenes through metabolic engineering of microorganisms.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2017Review
- Biofuel metabolic engineering with biosensors.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2016Review
- Genomic and phenotypic characterization of the species Acinetobacter venetianus.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Marine hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria as whole-cell biosensors for n-alkanes.Microbial biotechnology · 2015Article
- Genetically assembled fluorescent biosensor for in situ detection of bio-synthesized alkanes.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Detection of organic compounds with whole-cell bioluminescent bioassays.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2014Review
- A culture-independent approach to unravel uncultured bacteria and functional genes in a complex microbial community.PloS one · 2012Article
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Abstract
Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 was found to tolerate seawater and have a special ability of adhering to an oil-water interface of 10-80 µm emulsified mineral and crude oil droplets. These properties make ADP1 an ideal bacterial chassis for constructing bioreporters that are able to actively search and sense oil spill in water and soils. Acinetobacter baylyi bioreporter ADPWH_alk was developed and applied to the detection of alkanes and alkenes in water, seawater and soils. Bioreporter ADPWH_alk was able to detect a broad range of alkanes and alkenes with carbon chain length from C7 to C36. So far, ADPWH_alk is the only bioreporter that is able to detect alkane with carbon chain length greater than C18. This bioreporter responded to the alkanes in about 30 min and it was independent to the cell growth phase because of two point mutations in alkM promoter recognized by alkane regulatory protein ALKR. ADPWH_alk was applied to detect mineral oil, Brent, Chestnut and Sirri crude oils in water and seawater in the range 0.1-100 mg l(-1), showing that the bioreporter oil detection was semi-quantitative. This study demonstrates that ADPWH_alk is a rapid, sensitive and semi-quantitative bioreporter that can be useful for environmental monitoring and assessment of oil spills in seawater and soils.
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