Isolation and characterization of a facultatively aerobic bacterium that reductively dehalogenates tetrachloroethene to cis-1,2-dichloroethene

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 761-765

  Sharma, Pramod K ^a   McCarty, Perry L ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2 DICHLOROETHYLENE; ACETIC ACID; AMINO ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; FATTY ACID; FORMIC ACID; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; NITRATE; OXYGEN; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; PYRUVIC ACID; RIBOSOME RNA; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHALOGENATION; ENTEROBACTER; NONHUMAN; REDUCTION;

EID: 0030030536     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.3.761-765.1996     Document Type: Article

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