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A number of microorganisms exhibit the unusual property of being tolerant to high concentrations of organic solvents such as toluene, xylenes, ethylbenzene, 1-octanol, 1-decanol, etc. in the culture medium. These microbes are of utmost importance in industrial processes associated with biotransformations in double-phase systems and bioremediation. In this study we describe some of the tools that can be used to understand the physiological basis underlying solvent tolerance; information that can, in turn, be used to expand the range of industrial microorganisms that exhibit these properties.
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Duque, E. et al. (2010). Protocols for the Characterization of Solvent Tolerant Microorganisms: Construction and Characterization of Mutants . In: Timmis, K.N. (eds) Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77587-4_309
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