An α-proteobacterium converts linear alkylbenzenesulfonate surfactants into sulfophenylcarboxylates and linear alkyldiphenyletherdisulfonate surfactants into sulfodiphenylethercarboxylates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1911-1916

  Schleheck, David ^a   Dong, Wenbo ^a,c   Denger, Karin ^a   Heinzle, Elmar ^b   Cook, Alasdair M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; ALKANE; ALKYLBENZENESULFONIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DODECANE; HEXANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLYESTER; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WOOL;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BENZENESULFONATES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; KINETICS; PHENYL ETHERS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA; UNCULTURED ALPHA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0034059439     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.1911-1916.2000     Document Type: Article

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