Oil-eating

Fa.ts nd Oils. Eats and oils from rendering animal and fish offal and vegetable oilseeds provide nutritional by-products used as a source of energy, unsaturated fatty acids, and palatabiHty enhancement. Eats influence the texture in finished pet foods. The use and price of the various melting point fats is deterrnined by the type and appearance of the desired finished food appearance. 

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in that genetically altered life forms can be patented a Supreme Court decision in 1980 allowed the Exxon oil company to patent an oil-eating microorganism. This ruling opened up enormous possibilities for commercially exploiting genetic engineering. 

Erickson. D. Oil-Eating Bacterium that Spawned an Industry, Sci. Amer., 88 (June 1990). 

Fats (solids) and oils (liquids) are esters of glycerol and aliphatic acids of high molecular weight. Eatty acids are all organic acids whose esters occur in fats and oils. Eats and oils have the general formula... 

It has been known for some time that there are strains of bacteria that will accelerate the oxidation of many of the compounds present in unrefined petroleum. These bacteria have been termed oil-eating bacteria. 

Oil-eating bacteria can oxidize long-chain alkanes. In the first step of the pathway, the enzyme monooxygenase catalyzes a reaction that converts the long-chain alkane into a primary alcohol. Data from research studies indicate that three more reactions are required to allow the primary alcohol to enter the p-oxidation pathway. Propose a pathway that would convert the long-chain alcohol into a product that could enter the p-oxidation pathway. 

Properties Alkyl Groups Nomenclature Constitutional or Structural Isomers An Environmental Perspective Oil-Eating Bacteria... 

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