Revealing bioremediation potential of novel indigenous bacteria from oil-contaminated sites in the UAE: A combined bioinformatics and experimental validation

• Sara Awni Alkhatib,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Center for Catalysis and Separation (CeCaS), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5498-190X

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• Sagar Arya,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Deema Islayem,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Runyararo Memory Nyadzayo,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Sharmarke Mohamed,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Green Chemistry & Materials Modelling Laboratory, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Ahmed F. Yousef,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Center for Biotechnology (BTC), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Research Center for Membranes and Advanced Water Technology (CMAT), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5734-489X

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• Hector H. Hernandez ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hector.hernandez@tulif.org (HHH); anna.pappa@ku.ac.ae (AMP)

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Tulif Holdings, One Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Anna-Maria Pappa

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization

  * E-mail: hector.hernandez@tulif.org (HHH); anna.pappa@ku.ac.ae (AMP)

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Center for Catalysis and Separation (CeCaS), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Center for Biotechnology (BTC), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7980-4073

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