Table 2.

Comparison of different alkane bioreporters.

Host	Regulation system	Reporter	Response time	Detection limit	Alkane detection range	Reference
E. coli DH5α	alkB‐alkS	gfp	2.5 h	0.011 mg l−1a	C6–C10	Jaspers et al. (2001)
E. coli DH5α	alkB‐alkS	luxAB	1.0−2.0 h	0.011 mg l−1a	C6–C10	Sticher et al. (1997), Tecon et al. (2010)
E. coli DH5α	alkBFGHJT	luxAB	–	0.78 mg l−1	C6–C10	Minak‐Bernero et al. (2004)
Y. lipolytica	–	OD600	24 h	0.85 mg l−1	C9–C12	Alkasrawi et al. (1999)
A. baylyi ADP1	alkM‐alkR	lacZ	10 h	–	C7–C18	Ratajczak et al. (1998a)
A. baylyi ADP1	alkM‐alkR	luxCDABE	0.5 h	0.1 mg l−1b	C7–C36	Zhang et al. (2011) and this study

^a.The detection limit for octane only.

^b.The detection limit for octadecane is 8.6 × 10⁻⁴mg l⁻¹.