Characterization of Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans sp. nov., which grows by coupling the oxidation of lactate to the reductive dechlorination of 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3800-3808

  Sanford, Robert A ^a,c   Cole, James R ^a   Löffler, Frank E ^a   Tiedje, James M ^a,b  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; CHLORINE; CROTONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FORMIC ACID; FUMARIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; NITRATE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PYRUVIC ACID; RNA 16S; SULFITE; SULFUR; THIOSULFATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL RESPIRATION; DECHLORINATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPOROGENESIS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFITOBACTERIUM CHLORORESPIRANS; DESULFITOBACTERIUM DEHALOGENANS;

EID: 0029738518     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.10.3800-3808.1996     Document Type: Article

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