Desulfitobacterium sp. strain PCE1, an anaerobic bacterium that can grow by reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene or ortho-chlorinated phenols

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 132-140

  Gerritse, Jan ^a   Renard, Veronique ^a   Pedro Gomes, Teresa M ^a   Lawson, Paul A ^b   Collins, Matthew D ^b   Gottschal, Jan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorinated ethenes; Chlorinated phenols; Desulfitobacterium; Reductive dechlorination

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHENOL; LACTIC ACID; LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PYRUVIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; PHENOL; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; TEMPERATURE; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLOROPHENOLS; CULTURE MEDIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTATES; LACTIC ACID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PYRUVATES; PYRUVIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

EID: 0029670464     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050308     Document Type: Article

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