Exploring the diversity of produced water bacteria with hydrocarbon-degrading potential using MALDI-TOF MS and multivariate statistical analyses.

ABSTRACT: The success of bioremediation of produced water relies on the use of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria. Hence, the selection of highly tolerant endogenous strains from produced water is crucial to designing successful bioremediation. However, the employed isolation and screening approaches are, in general, long. Integrative and rapid approaches based on microbiological and molecular techniques are now required due to the frequent fluctuation of the composition of the produced water. Here, enrichment cultures at high toxicity followed by protein profiling using MALDI-TOF MS were shown to be efficient in clustering the endogenous hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria and help select the potential candidates. Several bacterial strains (n = 18) were isolated from produced water sampled from Qatar's Nort

SUBMITTER: Al-Kaabi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12474702 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature