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Culture-independent analysis of hydrocarbonoclastic bacterial communities in environmental samples during oil-bioremediation.

Narjes Dashti, Nedaa Ali, Samar Salamah, Majida Khanafer, Ghada Al-Shamy, Husain Al-Awadhi, Samir S Radwan

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Article in MicrobiologyOpen, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. Characterization of the biosurfactant production and enzymatic potential of bacteria isolated from an oil-contaminated saline soil.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2023
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7 authors.

Narjes DashtiMicrobiology program, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait.ORCID 0000-0002-6729-7860
Nedaa AliMicrobiology program, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait.ORCID 0000-0002-3359-922X
Samar SalamahMicrobiology program, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait.ORCID 0000-0003-1443-6721
Majida KhanaferMicrobiology program, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait.ORCID 0000-0002-2552-4922
Ghada Al-ShamyMicrobiology program, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait.ORCID 0000-0001-9177-3444
Husain Al-AwadhiMicrobiology program, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait.ORCID 0000-0001-6544-7071
Samir S RadwanMicrobiology program, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait.ORCID 0000-0001-7687-4984

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To analyze microbial communities in environmental samples, this study combined Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis of amplified 16S rRNA-genes in total genomic DNA extracts from those samples with gene sequencing. The environmental samples studied were oily seawater and soil samples, that had been bioaugmented with natural materials rich in hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria. This molecular approach revealed much more diverse bacterial taxa than the culture-dependent method we had used in an earlier study for the analysis of the same samples. The study described the dynamics of bacterial communities during bioremediation. The main limitation associated with this molecular approach, namely of not distinguishing hydrocarbonoclastic taxa from others, was overcome by consulting the literature for the hydrocarbonoclastic potential of taxa related to those identified in this study. By doing so, it was concluded that the hydrocarbonoclastic bacterial taxa were much more diverse than those captured by the culture-dependent approach. The molecular analysis also revealed the frequent occurrence of nifH-genes in the total genomic DNA extracts of all the studied environmental samples, which reflects a nitrogen-fixation potential. Nitrogen fertilization is long known to enhance microbial oil-bioremediation. The study revealed that bioaugmentation using plant rhizospheres or soil with long history of oil-pollution was more effective in oil-removal in the desert soil than in seawater microcosms.

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BiodiversityBacteriaBiodegradation, EnvironmentalCluster AnalysisDenaturing Gradient Gel ElectrophoresisDNA, RibosomalEnvironmental PollutantsHydrocarbonsMetagenomicsOilsOxidoreductasesPhylogenyRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSequence Analysis, DNADNA, RibosomalEnvironmental PollutantsHydrocarbonsnitrogenase reductaseOilsOxidoreductasesRNA, Ribosomal, 16Sbioremediationhydrocarbonoclastic bacteriamolecular analysisnifH-genesoil spills

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PMCPMC6391274

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