Transformation yields of chlorinated ethenes by a methanotrophic mixed culture expressing particulate methane monooxygenase

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 687-693

  Anderson, James E ^a   Mccarty, Perry L ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIODEGRADATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHLORINATION; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 0030970069     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.2.687-693.1997     Document Type: Article

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