Environmental fate and microbial degradation of aminopolycarboxylic acids

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 69-106

  Bucheli Witschel, Margarete ^a   Egli, Thomas ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abiotic elimination mechanism; Aminopolycarboxylic acid; Biochemistry; Biodegradation; Chelation; Ethy lenediaminetetraacetate; Ethylenediaminedisuccinate; Metal speciation of aminopolycarboxylic acid; Metal complexing agent; Nitrilotriacetate

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CELL ENZYME; DOMESTIC CHEMICAL; EDETIC ACID; FERRIC ION; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; IRON COMPLEX; LYASE; METAL COMPLEX; METAL ION; NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID; SURFACE WATER; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME ISOLATION; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTODEGRADATION; PRECIPITATION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOLUBILITY; WASTE WATER; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHELATING AGENTS; EDETIC ACID; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0035162041     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(00)00055-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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