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Isolation and characterization of a novel native Bacillus strain capable of degrading diesel fuel
Article 12: Volume 6, Number 3, Summer 2009, Pages 435-442 (8) XML PDF (146 K)
Authors
D. Yousefi Kebria; A. Khodadadi; H. Ganjidoust; A. Badkoubi; M. A. Amoozegar
Abstract
The ability of native bacteria to utilize diesel fuel as the sole carbon and energy source was investigated in this research. Ten bacterial strains were isolated from the oil refinery field in Tehran, Iran. Two biodegradation experiments were performed in low and high (500 and 10000 ppm, respectively) concentration of diesel fuel for 15 days. Only two isolates were able to efficiently degrade the petroleum hydrocarbons in the first test and degraded 86.67 % and, 80.60 % of diesel fuel, respectively. The secondary experiment was performed to investigate the toxicity effect of diesel fuel at high concentration (10000 ppm). Only one strain was capable to degrade 85.20 % of diesel fuel at the same time (15 days). Phenotype and phylogeny analysis of this strain was characterized and identified as diesel-degrading bacteria, based on gram staining, biochemical tests, 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. These results indicate that this new strain was Bacillus sp. and could be considered as Bacillus Cereus with 98 % 16 S rRNA gene sequence similarity. The results indicate that native strains have great potential for in situ remediation of diesel-contaminated soils in oil refinery sites.
Keywords
Bacillus cereus; Bacteria; Biodegradation; Bioremediation; Petroleum
Main Subjects
Bacilus strain; Diesel fuel
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