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Microorganism-Hydrophobic Compound Interactions

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Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology

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The low solubility of hydrocarbons forces hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms to physically interact with oil phases. This has various implications for the physicochemical characteristics of these microbes, their modes of hydrocarbon uptake, and behavioral and physiological strategies used to establish the interaction as summarized in Table 1 .

Table 1 Overview of the different microbial strategies employed to enhance the bioavailability of non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) hydrocarbons to micro-organisms
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  1. Department of Environmental Microbiology, UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

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Harms, H., Smith, K.E.C., Wick, L.Y. (2010). Microorganism-Hydrophobic Compound Interactions. In: Timmis, K.N. (eds) Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77587-4_101

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