New hydrocarbon degradation pathways in the microbial metagenome from Brazilian petroleum reservoirs.

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dc.citation.journalTitlePlos Onespa
dc.contributor.authorSierra-García IN
dc.contributor.authorCorrea Alvarez J
dc.contributor.authorde Vasconcellos SP
dc.contributor.authorPereira de Souza A
dc.contributor.authordos Santos Neto EV
dc.contributor.authorde Oliveira VM
dc.contributor.departmentUniversidad EAFIT. Departamento de Cienciasspa
dc.contributor.researchgroupCiencias Biológicas y Bioprocesos (CIBIOP)spa
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-23T20:08:57Z
dc.date.available2021-03-23T20:08:57Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-01
dc.description.abstractCurrent knowledge of the microbial diversity and metabolic pathways involved in hydrocarbon degradation in petroleum reservoirs is still limited, mostly due to the difficulty in recovering the complex community from such an extreme environment. Metagenomics is a valuable tool to investigate the genetic and functional diversity of previously uncultured microorganisms in natural environments. Using a function-driven metagenomic approach, we investigated the metabolic abilities of microbial communities in oil reservoirs. Here, we describe novel functional metabolic pathways involved in the biodegradation of aromatic compounds in a metagenomic library obtained from an oil reservoir. Although many of the deduced proteins shared homology with known enzymes of different well-described aerobic and anaerobic catabolic pathways, the metagenomic fragments did not contain the complete clusters known to be involved in hydrocarbon degradation. Instead, the metagenomic fragments comprised genes belonging to different pathways, showing novel gene arrangements. These results reinforce the potential of the metagenomic approach for the identification and elucidation of new genes and pathways in poorly studied environments and contribute to a broader perspective on the hydrocarbon degradation processes in petroleum reservoirs.eng
dc.identifierhttps://eafit.fundanetsuite.com/Publicaciones/ProdCientif/PublicacionFrw.aspx?id=4756
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0090087spa
dc.identifier.issn19326203spa
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10784/26807
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rightshttps://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/1932-6203
dc.sourcePlos One
dc.titleNew hydrocarbon degradation pathways in the microbial metagenome from Brazilian petroleum reservoirs.eng
dc.typearticleeng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleeng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioneng
dc.typepublishedVersioneng
dc.type.localArtículo

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