Enrichment and Isolation of Metal Respiring Hydrocarbon Oxidizers

摘要: The energy conservation strategies of plants and animals are exceedingly homogeneous in comparison with those bacterial cells. Among the wide variety mechanisms that exist to provide electrons support life, use insoluble metallic elements as electron acceptors is one most interesting. prevalence minerals comprise soils sediments raises possibility metalrespiring organisms play a significant role biogeochemical transformations. environmental abundance metals also inspires hope cells capable coupling metal respiration oxidation contaminant hydrocarbons can be captured, studied, manipulated enhance biodegradation processes (Lovley et al., 1994; Wischgoll 2005).