Nerve agents degraded by enzymatic foams [8]

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6697, 1998, Pages 27-28

  LeJeune, Keith E ^a   Wild, James R ^b   Russell, Alan J ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; FOAMING AGENT; HYDROLASE; NERVE GAS;

CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARYLDIALKYLPHOSPHATASE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; DECONTAMINATION; ESTERASES; PARAOXON;

EID: 0032480335     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25634     Document Type: Letter

References (12)

1. Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions (National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Washington DC, 1993).
2. Orton, R. D. Technology Report for Congress (Department of the Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 1994).
3. Chemical Weapons Destruction, Advantages and Disadvantages of Alternatives to Incineration (GAO/NSIAD-94-123, General Accounting Office, Washington DC, 1994).
4. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and the Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (United States Senate, Washington DC, 8th August 1994).
5. Grimsley, J. K., Rastogi, V. K. & Wild, J. R. Bioremediation: Principles and Practice pp. 577-614 (Technomic, Irvine, 1997).
6. Cheng, T. C. & Calomiris, J. J. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 18, 597-601 (1996).
7. Hoskin, F. C. G., Waler, J. E., Dettbarn, W. D. & Wild, J. R. Biochem. Pharmacol. 49, 711-715 (1995).
8. LeJeune, K. E. et al. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 54, 105-114 (1997).
9. LeJeune, K. E. & Russell, A. J. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 51, 450-457 (1996).
10. Xu, B., Wild, I. R. & Kenerley C. M. J. J. Ferment. Bioeng. 81, 473-481 (1996).
11. Lai, K., Stolowich, N. J. & Wild, J. R. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 318, 59-64 (1995).
12. Grimsley, J. K., Scholtz, J. M, Pace, C. N. & Wild J. R. Biochemistry 36, 14366-14374 (1997).