Identification and characterization of anaerobic mercury-resistant bacteria isolated from mercury-polluted sediment

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 109-114

  Narita, M ^a   Huang, C C ^a   Koizumi, T ^a   Yamagata, T ^a   Endo, G ^a  

^a TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaerobic mercury resistant bacteria; Chromosome; Clostridium butyricum; merA gene (mercury reductase gene); merB gene (organomercurial lyase gene); Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; ELECTROPHORESIS; MERCURY (METAL); REACTION KINETICS; SEDIMENTS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

ANEROBIC MERCURY RESISTANT BACTERIA; CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM; MERCURY POLLUTED SEDIMENT; MERCURY RESISTANCE MECHANISM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; MERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM;

EID: 0033732903     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2000.0366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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