References
- Beguin, P., S. Chauvaux, I. Miras, A. François, F. Fayolle, and F. Monot. 2003. Genes involved in the degradation of ether fuels by bacteria of the Mycobacterium/Rhodococcus group. Oil & Gas Science and Technology 58 (4):489–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.2516/ogst:2003032.
- Bernhardt, F. H., E. Bill, A. X. Trautwein, and H. Twilfer. 1988. 4-Methoxybenzoate monooxygenase from Pseudomonas putida: Isolation, biochemical properties, substrate specificity, and reaction mechanisms of the enzyme components. Methods in Enzymology 161:281–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/0076-6879(88)61031-7.
- Blagodatskaya, E. V., and T.-H. Anderson. 1999. Adaptive responses of soil microbial communities under experimental acid stress in controlled laboratory studies. Applied Soil Ecology 11 (2-3):207–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0929-1393(98)00148-6.
- Bogen, K. T., and J. M. Heilman. 2015. Reassessment of MTBE cancer potency considering modes of action for MTBE and its metabolites. Critical Reviews in Toxicology 45 (sup1):1–56. doi: https://doi.org/10.3109/10408444.2015.1052367.
- Brzeszcz, J., and P. Kaszycki. 2018. Aerobic bacteria degrading both n-alkanes and aromatic hydrocarbons: an undervalued strategy for metabolic diversity and flexibility. Biodegradation 29 (4):359–407. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10532-018-9837-x.
- Chauvaux, S., F. Chevalier, C. L. Dantec, F. Fayolle, I. Miras, F. Kunst, and P. Beguin. 2001. Cloning of a genetically unstable cytochrome P-450 gene cluster involved in degradation of the pollutant ethyl tert-butyl ether by Rhodococcus ruber. Journal of Bacteriology 183 (22):6551–7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.183.22.6551-6557.2001.
- Chen, D., J. Chen, W. Zhong, and Z. Cheng. 2008. Degradation of methyl tert-butyl ether by gel immobilized Methylibium petroleiphilum PM1. Bioresource Technology 99 (11):4702–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2007.09.075.
- Cheremisinoff, N. P. 2003. Industrial solvents handbook. 2nd ed. New York: CRC Press.
- Concawe. 2012. Gasoline ether oxygenate occurrence in Europe, and a review of their fate and transport characteristics in the environment. Brussels: CONCAWE.
- Cortez, J. S. A., B. I. Kharisov, T. E. S. Quezada, and T. C. H. García. 2017. Micro- and nanoporous materials capable of absorbing solvents and oils reversibly: The state of the art. Petroleum Science 14 (1):84–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-016-0143-0.
- Fayolle, F.,. G. Hernandez, F. L. Roux, and J.-P. Vandecasteele. 1998. Isolation of two aerobic bacterial strains that degrade efficiently ethyl t-butyl ether (ETBE). Biotechnology Letters 20 (3):283–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005390221856.
- Fiorenza, S., and H. S. Rifai. 2003. Review of MTBE biodegradation and bioremediation. Bioremediation Journal 7 (1):1–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/713914240-243.
- Gitipour, S., M. Abou Alfazl Zadeh, and S. Givehchi. 2008. Feasibility of MTBE absorption from groundwater by the use of modified clays. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 10:1–9.
- Gunasekaran, V., L. Stam, and M. Constantí. 2013. The effect of BTX compounds on the biodegradation of ETBE by an ETBE degrading bacterial consortium. Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering 18 (6):1216–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12257-013-0132-8.
- Hagiwara, A., Y. Doi, N. Imai, M. Suguro, M. Kawabe, F. Furukawa, S. Tamano, K. Nagano, and S. Fukushima. 2015. Promotion of liver and kidney carcinogenesis by ethyl tertiary-butyl ether (ETBE) in male Wistar rats. Journal of Toxicologic Pathology 28 (4):189–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1293/tox.2015-0023.
- Hausinger, R. P. 2007. New insights into acetone metabolism. Journal of Bacteriology 189 (3):671–3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.01578-06.
- Hernandez-Perez, G., F. Fayolle, and J.-P. Vandecasteele. 2001. Biodegradation of ethyl t-butyl ether (ETBE), methyl t-butyl ether (MTBE) and t-amyl methyl ether (TAME) by Gordonia terrae. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 55 (1):117–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002530000482.
- Isanapong, J., and P. Pornwongthong. 2021. Immobilized laccase on zinc oxide nanoarray for catalytic degradation of tertiary butyl alcohol. Journal of Hazardous Materials 411:125104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125104.
- Joshi, M. M., and S. Lee. 1996. Effect of oxygen amendments and soil pH on bioremediation of industrially contaminated soils. Energy Sources 18 (3):233–42. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00908319608908763.
- Kashir, M., and R. McGregor. 2018. Stabilized hydrogen peroxide for the remediation of hydrocarbons and MTBE in high temperature and saline groundwater. Remediation Journal 29 (1):27–36. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/rem.21580.
- Kharoune, M., L. Kharoune, J.-M. Lebault, and A. Pauss. 2002. Aerobic degradation of ethyl-tert-butyl ether by a microbial consortium: Selection and evaluation of biodegradation ability. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 21 (10):2052–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5620211007.
- Kharoune, M., A. Pauss, and J. M. Lebeault. 2001. Aerobic biodegradation of an oxygenates mixture: ETBE, MTBE and TAME in an upflow fixed-bed reactor. Water Research 35 (7):1665–74. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0043-1354(00)00448-6.
- Kim, Y.-H., and K.-H. Engesser. 2005. Inhibition of diethyl ether degradation in Rhodococcus sp. strain DEE5151 by glutaraldehyde and ethyl vinyl ether. FEMS Microbiol Lett 243 (2):317–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsle.2004.12.018.
- Le Digabel, Y., S. Demanèche, Y. Benoit, T. M. Vogel, and F. Fayolle-Guichard. 2013. Ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE) biodegradation by a syntrophic association of Rhodococcus sp. IFP 2042 and Bradyrhizobium sp. IFP 2049 isolated from a polluted aquifer. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 97 (24):10531–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-013-4803-3.
- Lechner, U., D. Brodkorb, R. Geyer, G. Hause, C. Härtig, G. Auling, F. Fayolle-Guichard, P. Piveteau, R. H. Müller, and T. Rohwerder. 2007. Aquincola tertiaricarbonis gen. nov., sp. nov., a tertiary butyl moiety-degrading bacterium. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 57 (Pt 6):1295–303. doi: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64663-0.
- Levchuk, I., A. Bhatnagar, and M. Sillanpää. 2014. Overview of technologies for removal of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) from water. The Science of the Total Environment 476-477:415–33. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.01.037.
- Müller, R. H., T. Rohwerder, and H. Harms. 2008. Degradation of fuel oxygenates and their main intermediates by Aquincola tertiaricarbonis L108. Microbiology (Reading, England) 154 (Pt 5):1414–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/014159-0.
- Ohkubo, N., S. Tsuboi, S. Yamamura, K. Iwasaki, and O. Yagi. 2017. Complete degradation of ethyl tert-butyl ether by co-culture of Rhodococcus erythropolis ET10 and Pseudonocardia benzenivorans. Journal of Environmental Biotechnology 17 (1):73–81.
- Patnaik, P. 2007. A comprehensive guide to the hazardous properties of chemical substances. 3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience.
- Pongkua, W., R. Dolphen, and P. Thiravetyan. 2020. Bioremediation of gaseous methyl tert-butyl ether by combination of sulfuric acid modified bagasse activated carbon-bone biochar beads and Acinetobacter indicus screened from petroleum contaminated soil. Chemosphere 239:124724 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.124724.
- Prenafeta-Boldú, F. X., H. Ballerstedt, J. Gerritse, and J. T. C. Grotenhuis. 2004. Bioremediation of BTEX hydrocarbons: Effect of soil inoculation with the toluene-growing fungus Cladophialophora sp. strain T1. Biodegradation 15 (1):59–65. doi: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BIOD.0000009973.53531.96.
- Prince, R. C. 2000. Biodegradation of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) and other fuel oxygenates. Crit Rev Microbiol 26 (3):163–78. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10408410008984175.
- Resnick, S. M., and D. T. Gibson. 1993. Biotransformation of anisole and phenetole by aerobic hydrocarbonoxidizing bacteria. Biodegradation 4 (3):195–203. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00695122.
- Rojo, F. 2009. Degradation of alkanes by bacteria. Environmental Microbiology 11 (10):2477–90. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01948.x.
- Romanelli, L., and M. G. Evandri. 2018. Permitted daily exposure for diisopropyl ether as a residual solvent in pharmaceuticals. Toxicological Research 34 (2):111–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.5487/TR.2018.34.2.111.
- Schäfer, F., J. Schuster, B. Würz, C. Härtig, H. Harms, R. H. Müller, and T. Rohwerder. 2012. Synthesis of short-chain diols and unsaturated alcohols from secondary alcohol substrates by the Rieske nonheme mononuclear iron oxygenase MdpJ. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78 (17):6280–4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01434-12.
- Schuster, J., J. Purswani, U. Breuer, C. Pozo, H. Harms, R. H. Müller, and T. Rohwerder. 2013. Constitutive expression of the cytochrome P450 EthABCD monooxygenase system enables degradation of synthetic dialkyl ethers in Aquincola tertiaricarbonis L108. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79 (7):2321–7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03348-12.
- Squillace, P. J., J. F. Pankow, N. E. Korte, and J. S. Zogorski. 1997. Review of the environmental behavior and fate of methyl tert-butyl ether. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 16 (9):1836–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5620160911.
- Tawabini, B., and M. Makkawi. 2018. Remediation of MTBE-contaminated groundwater by integrated circulation wells and advanced oxidation technologies. Water Supply 18 (2):399–407. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2017.128.
- Thornton, S. F., H. C. G. Nicholls, S. A. Rolfe, H. E. H. Mallinson, and M. J. Spence. 2020. Biodegradation and fate of ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE) in soil and groundwater: A review. Journal of Hazardous Materials 391:122046 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122046.
- Vainberg, S., K. McClay, H. Masuda, D. Root, C. Condee, G. J. Zylstra, and R. J. Steffan. 2006. Biodegradation of ether pollutants by Pseudonocardia sp. strain ENV478. Appl Environ Microbiol 72 (8):5218–24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00160-06.
- Vakili, M., M. Rafatullah, B. Salamatinia, M. H. Ibrahim, N. Ismail, and A. Z. Abdullah. 2017. Adsorption studies of methyl tert-butyl ether from environment. Separation & Purification Reviews 46 (4):273–90. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15422119.2016.1270966.
- White, G. F., N. J. Russell, and E. C. Tidswell. 1996. Bacterial scission of ether bonds. Microbiological Reviews 60 (1):216–32. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.60.1.216-232.1996.
- Yakimov, M. M., P. N. Golyshin, S. Lang, E. R. Moore, W. R. Abraham, H. Lünsdorf, and K. N. Timmis. 1998. Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 48 Pt 2:339–48. doi: https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-2-339.
- Yee, K. F., A. R. Mohamed, and S. H. Tan. 2013. A review on the evolution of ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE) and its future prospects. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 22:604–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2013.02.016.
- Zsilinszky, I., P. Gyula, Z. Bihari, B. Fehér, and Z. Szabó. 2019. Draft genome sequence of Mycolicibacterium sp. strain CH28, a potential degrader of diisopropyl ether, isolated from pharmaceutical wastewater. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8 (37):e00682-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00682-19.