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Background  With the high demand for diesel across the world, environmental decontamination from its improper usage, storage and accidental spills becomes necessary. One highly environmentally friendly and cost-effective decontamination method is to utilize diesel-degrading microbes as a means for bioremediation. Here, we present a newly isolated and identified strain of  Acinetobacter calcoaceticus  (‘CA16’) as a candidate for the bioremediation of diesel-contaminated areas.    Results   Acinetobacter calcoaceticus  CA16 was able to survive and grow in minimal medium with diesel as the only source of carbon. We determined through metabolomics that  A. calcoaceticus  CA16 appears to be efficient at diesel degradation. Specifically, CA16 is able to degrade 82 to 92% of aliphatic alkane hydrocarbons (C  n  H  n  + 2 ; where  n  = 12–18) in 28 days. Several diesel-degrading genes (such as  alk M and  xcp R) that are present in other microbes were also found to be activated in CA16.    Conclusions  The results presented here suggest that  Acinetobacter  strain CA16 has good potential in the bioremediation of diesel-polluted environments.

Characterization and genomic analysis of a diesel-degrading bacterium, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus CA16, isolated from Canadian soil