Fig. 1.

Growth curves of the three bacterial strains – (a) PA, (d) PM and (g) BM in the presence of different concentrations of crude oil (1%, 2% and 3% v/v), protein content (mg mL⁻¹) in (b, e and h) and Specific activities (U = 1 μmol of the product/min/mg protein) of C12O (U mg⁻¹) and C23O (U mg⁻¹) of bacterial strains grown in MSM with crude oil (concentration in %) – (c, f and i) PA-1%, PM-1% and BM-3%.