Initial reductive reactions in aerobic microbial metabolism of 2,4,6- trinitrotoluene

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 246-252

  Vorbeck, Claudia ^a   Lenke, Hiltrud ^a   Fischer, Peter ^a   Spain, Jim C ^b   Knackmuss, Hans Joachim ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTERFACIAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IGB   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRINITROTOLUENE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERYTHROPOLIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SP.; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; VIBRIO PHAGE NT-1;

EID: 0031985535     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.1.246-252.1998     Document Type: Article

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