Moniliella spathulata, an oil-degrading yeast, which promotes growth of barley in oil-polluted soil.

ABSTRACT: The yeast strain Moniliella spathulata SBUG-Y 2180 was isolated from oil-contaminated soil at the Tengiz oil field in the Atyrau region of Kazakhstan on the basis of its unique ability to use crude oil and its components as the sole carbon and energy source. This yeast used a large number of hydrocarbons as substrates (more than 150), including n-alkanes with chain lengths ranging from C₁₀ to C₃₂, monomethyl- and monoethyl-substituted alkanes (C₉-C₂₃), and n-alkylcyclo alkanes with alkyl chain lengths from 3 to 24 carbon atoms as well as substituted monoaromatic and diaromatic hydrocarbons. Metabolism of this huge range of hydrocarbon substrates produced a very large number of aliphatic, alicyclic, and aromatic acids. Fifty-one of these were iden

SUBMITTER: Mikolasch A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7778628 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature