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Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are well known for their significance for the carbon and sulfur cycles in marine sediments. Despite their general energetic restriction, some SRB are capable of anaerobic degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons in the marine environments, such as deep sea sediments characterized by recent oil formation. Proteogenomics has allowed hitherto unknown insights into the physiology of SRB from single catabolic reactions to complex metabolic networks. Best studied aromatic compound-degrading SRB at present are toluene-degrading Desulfobacula toluolica Tol2 and the naphthalene-degrading enrichment culture N47.
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Rabus, R., Wilkes, H. (2019). Functional Genomics of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria Degrading Hydrocarbons. In: Boll, M. (eds) Anaerobic Utilization of Hydrocarbons, Oils, and Lipids. Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33598-8_12-1
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