PMID- 23632908 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140501 LR - 20211021 IS - 1573-0972 (Electronic) IS - 0959-3993 (Linking) VI - 29 IP - 11 DP - 2013 Nov TI - Remarkable impact of PAHs and TPHs on the richness and diversity of bacterial species in surface soils exposed to long-term hydrocarbon pollution. PG - 1989-2002 LID - 10.1007/s11274-013-1362-9 [doi] AB - Nowadays, because of substantial use of petroleum-derived fuels the number and extension of hydrocarbon polluted terrestrial ecosystems is in growth worldwide. In remediation of aforementioned sites bioremediation still tends to be an innovative, environmentally attractive technology. Although huge amount of information is available concerning the hydrocarbon degradation potential of cultivable hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria little is known about the in situ long-term effects of petroleum derived compounds on the structure of soil microbiota. Therefore, in this study our aim was to determine the long-term impact of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs), volatile petroleum hydrocarbons (VPHs), total alkyl benzenes (TABs) as well as of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on the structure of bacterial communities of four different contaminated soil samples. Our results indicated that a very high amount of TPH affected positively the diversity of hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria. This finding was supported by the occurrence of representatives of the alpha-, beta-, gamma-Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Flavobacteriia and Bacilli classes. High concentration of VPHs and TABs contributed to the predominance of actinobacterial isolates. In PAH impacted samples the concentration of PAHs negatively correlated with the diversity of bacterial species. Heavily PAH polluted soil samples were mainly inhabited by the representatives of the beta-, gamma-Proteobacteria (overwhelming dominance of Pseudomonas sp.) and Actinobacteria. FAU - Benedek, Tibor AU - Benedek T AD - Department of Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Polytehnical University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, 060042, Bucharest, Romania, benedektibor@sapientia.siculorum.ro. FAU - Vajna, Balazs AU - Vajna B FAU - Tancsics, Andras AU - Tancsics A FAU - Marialigeti, Karoly AU - Marialigeti K FAU - Lanyi, Szabolcs AU - Lanyi S FAU - Mathe, Istvan AU - Mathe I LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130430 PL - Germany TA - World J Microbiol Biotechnol JT - World journal of microbiology & biotechnology JID - 9012472 RN - 0 (Benzene Derivatives) RN - 0 (DNA, Bacterial) RN - 0 (Hydrocarbons) RN - 0 (Petroleum) RN - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S) RN - 0 (Soil Pollutants) SB - IM MH - Actinobacteria/genetics/*isolation & purification MH - Benzene Derivatives/chemistry/metabolism MH - Biodegradation, Environmental MH - Biodiversity MH - DNA, Bacterial/genetics/isolation & purification MH - Ecosystem MH - Evolution, Molecular MH - Hydrocarbons/*chemistry/metabolism MH - *Microbiota MH - *Petroleum/metabolism MH - Phylogeny MH - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/chemistry/metabolism MH - Proteobacteria/genetics/*isolation & purification MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics MH - *Soil Microbiology MH - Soil Pollutants/*chemistry MH - Species Specificity EDAT- 2013/05/02 06:00 MHDA- 2014/05/03 06:00 CRDT- 2013/05/02 06:00 PHST- 2013/01/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/04/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/05/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/05/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/05/03 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s11274-013-1362-9 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - World J Microbiol Biotechnol. 2013 Nov;29(11):1989-2002. doi: 10.1007/s11274-013-1362-9. Epub 2013 Apr 30.