ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2016
Challenging Oil Bioremediation at Deep-Sea Hydrostatic Pressure.
Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Characterization and Transcriptome Analysis of a Long-ChainInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Protatranes, effective growth biostimulants of hydrocarbon-oxidizing bacteria from Lake Baikal, Russia.Biotechnology reports (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2019Article
- Reduced TCA cycle rates at high hydrostatic pressure hinder hydrocarbon degradation and obligate oil degraders in natural, deep-sea microbial communities.The ISME journal · 2019Article
- Periodic and Spatial Spreading of Alkanes andApplied and environmental microbiology · 2019Article
- Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in deep-water subarctic sediments (Faroe-Shetland Channel).Journal of applied microbiology · 2018Article
- Effect of spatial origin and hydrocarbon composition on bacterial consortia community structure and hydrocarbon biodegradation rates.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2018Article
- The influence of pressure on crude oil biodegradation in shallow and deep Gulf of Mexico sediments.PloS one · 2018Article
- The Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on Enrichments of Hydrocarbon Degrading Microbes From the Gulf of Mexico Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- A Retrospective Review of Microbiological Methods Applied in Studies Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Review
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- The Interaction between Plants and Bacteria in the Remediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons: An Environmental Perspective.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Review
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
The Deepwater Horizon accident has brought oil contamination of deep-sea environments to worldwide attention. The risk for new deep-sea spills is not expected to decrease in the future, as political pressure mounts to access deep-water fossil reserves, and poorly tested technologies are used to access oil. This also applies to the response to oil-contamination events, with bioremediation the only (bio)technology presently available to combat deep-sea spills. Many questions about the fate of petroleum-hydrocarbons within deep-sea environments remain unanswered, as well as the main constraints limiting bioremediation under increased hydrostatic pressures and low temperatures. The microbial pathways fueling oil bioassimilation are unclear, and the mild upregulation observed for beta-oxidation-related genes in both water and sediments contrasts with the high amount of alkanes present in the spilled oil. The fate of solid alkanes (tar), hydrocarbon degradation rates and the reason why the most predominant hydrocarbonoclastic genera were not enriched at deep-sea despite being present at hydrocarbon seeps at the Gulf of Mexico have been largely overlooked. This mini-review aims at highlighting the missing information in the field, proposing a holistic approach where in situ and ex situ studies are integrated to reveal the principal mechanisms accounting for deep-sea oil bioremediation.
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