Engineering A Recombinant Deinococcus Radiodurans for Organopollutant Degradation in Radioactive Mixed Waste Environments

Bio/Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 929-933

  Lange, Cleston C ^a   Wackett, Lawrence P ^a   Minton, Kenneth W ^b   Daly, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Toluene dioxygenase

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLVENT; RADIOISOTOPE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; DNA DAMAGE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IONIZING RADIATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS;

EID: 0031728784     PISSN: 0733222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1098-929     Document Type: Article

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