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Petroleum pollution bioremediation using water-insoluble uric acid as the nitrogen source
Omry Koren1, Vishnia Knezevic, Eliora Z Ron
1Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel 69978.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|October 9, 2003
Abstract:
The biodegradation of hydrocarbon pollutants in open systems is limited by the availability of a utilizable nitrogen source. This limitation can be overcome by using uric acid. Enrichment cultures grown on crude oil-uric acid media yielded mixed and pure cultures that degraded petroleum. In a simulated open system, uric acid bound to crude oil and was available for bacterial growth and petroleum biodegradation.