Biological Conversion of Normal Chain Octadecane by Native Microbial Consortia

Anaerobic Bioconversion of Heavy Hydrocarbons Using Native Consortia

Microbial consortia at steady supply

Metagenomics has revealed hundreds of species in almost all microbiota. In a few well-studied cases, microbial communities have been observed to coordinate their metabolic fluxes. In principle, microbes can divide tasks to reap the benefits of specialization, as in human economies. However, the benefits and stability of an economy of microbial specialists are far from obvious. Here, we physical...

MICROBIAL CHAIN DEGRADATION OF CHOLESTEROL BY ARTHROB ACTER SIMPLEX

Because of the importance of microbial metabolites of cholesterol as precursors in the synthesis of steroidal drugs, we decided to study the ability of Arthrobacter simplex to degrade cholesterol. Arthrobacter simplex cleaves the side chain of cholesterol in the presence of 2,2'-dipyridyl and produces 4-androstene-3,17- dione (AD) and androsta- 1,4-diene-3,17-dione(ADD). Two other intermedi...

Engineering microbial consortia for biotechnology

Engineering and analyzing multi-cellular systems http://www.springer.com/chemistry/biotechnology/book/ 978-1-4939-0553-9 This e-book provides an engineering view of using mixed prokaryotic species for carrying out industrially relevant processes. Design of microbial consortia for industrial biotechnology http://yoric.mit.edu/design-microbial-consortia-industrial -biotechnology This report from ...

Metagenomic Analyses Reveal the Involvement of Syntrophic Consortia in Methanol/Electricity Conversion in Microbial Fuel Cells

Methanol is widely used in industrial processes, and as such, is discharged in large quantities in wastewater. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have the potential to recover electric energy from organic pollutants in wastewater; however, the use of MFCs to generate electricity from methanol has not been reported. In the present study, we developed single-chamber MFCs that generated electricity from ...

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Analysis of Microbial Consortia in Wastewater Treatment Processes for High Explosives

The engineering aspects of bioreactors treating wastewaters contaminated with high explosives are better understood than the microbial communities within the reactors. Five anaerobic bioreactors treating energetics were studied to better understand bacterial compositions in each reactor system as related to influents containing various energetic materials. Studied were: three anaerobic fluidize...