Role of environmental factors and microorganisms in determining the fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the marine environment

R Duran, C Cravo-Laureau - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widespread in marine ecosystems and
originate from natural sources and anthropogenic activities. PAHs enter the marine …

Using dispersants after oil spills: impacts on the composition and activity of microbial communities

S Kleindienst, JH Paul, SB Joye - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
Dispersants are globally and routinely applied as an emergency response to oil spills in
marine ecosystems with the goal of chemically enhancing the dissolution of oil into water …

Thermophilic archaea activate butane via alkyl-coenzyme M formation

R Laso-Pérez, G Wegener, K Knittel, F Widdel… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The anaerobic formation and oxidation of methane involve unique enzymatic mechanisms
and cofactors, all of which are believed to be specific for C1-compounds. Here we show that …

Anaerobic degradation of alkanes by marine archaea

G Wegener, R Laso-Pérez, VJ Orphan… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Alkanes are saturated apolar hydrocarbons that range from their simplest form, methane, to
high-molecular-weight compounds. Although alkanes were once considered biologically …

Anaerobic oxidation of ethane by archaea from a marine hydrocarbon seep

SC Chen, N Musat, OJ Lechtenfeld, H Paschke… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Ethane is the second most abundant component of natural gas in addition to methane, and—
similar to methane—is chemically unreactive. The biological consumption of ethane under …

Thermogenic hydrocarbon biodegradation by diverse depth-stratified microbial populations at a Scotian Basin cold seep

X Dong, JE Rattray, DC Campbell, J Webb… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
At marine cold seeps, gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons migrate from deep subsurface
origins to the sediment-water interface. Cold seep sediments are known to host …

Trace elements in methane-seep carbonates: Potentials, limitations, and perspectives

D Smrzka, D Feng, T Himmler, J Zwicker, Y Hu… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Marine authigenic carbonates form shallow-water microbialites, mud mounds, and
hydrocarbon-seep deposits and contain appreciable amounts of trace elements that yield …

Hydrocarbon degradation and response of seafloor sediment bacterial community in the northern Gulf of Mexico to light Louisiana sweet crude oil

HP Bacosa, DL Erdner, BE Rosenheim… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout resulted in the deposition to the seafloor of
up to 4.9% of 200 million gallons of oil released into the Gulf of Mexico. The petroleum …

Metagenomic analysis and metabolite profiling of deep–sea sediments from the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

NE Kimes, AV Callaghan, DF Aktas, WL Smith… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Marine subsurface environments such as deep-sea sediments, house abundant and diverse
microbial communities that are believed to influence large-scale geochemical processes …

Microbial transformation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill—past, present, and future perspectives

NE Kimes, AV Callaghan, JM Suflita… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The Deepwater Horizon blowout, which occurred on April 20, 2010, resulted in an
unprecedented oil spill. Despite a complex effort to cap the well, oil and gas spewed from …