Utilization of hydrocarbons and hydrogen by mycobacteria

✍ Scribed by H. B. Lukins; J. W. Foster

• Book ID: 102908676
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 969 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0233-111X
• DOI: 10.1002/jobm.19630030403

✦ Synopsis

Mycobacteria undoubtedly are the one group of microorganisms best recognized in respect to the capacity to utilize hydrocarbons. Since SOHNGEN'S (1913) discovery, paraffin has been used frequently for isolating selectively mycobacteria from soil (BUTTNER, 1926;HAAG, 1927;GORDON, 1937) as well as for distinguishing and classifying saprophytic members of this group (JENSEN, 1934;GORDON, 1937). Whereas earlier investigations dealt almost entirely with long-chain, liquid or solid hydrocarbons (most commonly "paraffin"), it is now clear that the individual gaseous alkanes, including methane, are Likewise attacked by mycobacteria (NECHAEVA, 1949 ;