Transformation kinetics of chlorinated ethenes by Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b and detection of unstable epoxides by on-line gas chromatography

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3304-3312

  Van Hylckama Vlieg, Johan E T ^a   De Koning, Wim ^a   Janssen, Dick B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; 1,2 DICHLOROETHYLENE; ACETYLENE; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKENE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHLOROFORM; DICHLOROMETHANE; EPOXIDE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; METHANE; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE; VINYL CHLORIDE; VINYLIDENE CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIODEGRADATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOSINUS TRICHOSPORIUM; TRICHOSPORIUM;

EID: 0029808095     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.9.3304-3312.1996     Document Type: Article

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