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Formation and function of biosurfactants for degradation of water-insoluble substrates

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Biochemistry of microbial degradation

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The degradation of water-immiscible substrates has been intensively studied over the last two decades. Many reports have sought answers to questions of how microorganisms adapt to enable them to metabolize such strongly hydrophobic substrates as n-alkanes. Enzymes involved in the respective metabolisms, their encoding and aspects of their regulation, as well as morphological alterations caused by alkane substrate, are well documented and are discussed in Chapter 1. This interest on alkane metabolism originates partly from commercial applications (Bühler and Schindler 1984; Ratledge 1988). Additionally, increasing environmental pollution by petroleum, its composites or oily derivatives are a new challenge to maintain the environment by biological means. The slow degradation of petroleum composites originates in their chemically inert structure, hydrophobicity and partial toxicity and thereof, special complex mechanisms of cell adaptations have been demanded.

Dedicated to Professor Dr H.-P. Kleber on the occasion of his 55th birthday.

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Hommel, R.K. (1994). Formation and function of biosurfactants for degradation of water-insoluble substrates. In: Ratledge, C. (eds) Biochemistry of microbial degradation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1687-9_3

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