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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 227, Issue 1, Pages 101-106Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00655-4
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cyclohexane oxidation; cycloalkane oxidation; cyclohexanone oxidation; petroleum degradation; bioremediation
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A new bacterium that grows aerobically on cyclohexane was isolated from the wastewater plant of a petroleum refinery. This strain grows on a range of light hydrocarbons (C5-C10) as well as on some aromatic compounds such as toluene and m-cresol. Growth on hydrocarbons requires the presence of yeast extract and other complex media components that are not substrates for growth themselves. Strain CHX is resistant to cyclohexane and grows at concentrations up to 2 g l(-1). Strain CHX branches deeply within the Comamonadeae family of beta-proteobacteria and is tentatively assigned to the Brachymonas genus as Brachymonas petroleovorans CHX. (C) 2003 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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