High affinity p-nitrophenol oxidation by Bacillus sphaericus JS905

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-120

  Kadiyala, Venkateswarlu ^a,c   Smets, Barth F ^b   Chandran, Kartik ^b   Spain, Jim C ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bacillus sphaericus JS905; Kinetics; p Nitrophenol oxidation; Respirometry

Indexed keywords

4 NITROPHENOL;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BIODEGRADATION; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL TREATMENT; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS;

EID: 0031710145     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00319-X     Document Type: Article

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