Identification of a bacterium that specifically catalyzes the reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls with doubly flanked chlorines

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 807-812

  Wu, Qingzhong ^a   Watts, Joy E M ^a   Sowers, Kevin R ^a   May, Harold D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DECHLORINATION; DNA SEQUENCES; ELECTROPHORESIS; HYDROGEN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

REDUCTIVE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA;

CHLORINE DERIVATIVE; DNA 16S; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; TETRACHLOROBIPHENYL;

DECHLORINATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROORGANISM; PCB;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COCULTURE; DECHLORINATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TAXONOMY; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLORINE; CHLOROPHENOLS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FRESH WATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFATES; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIO CALEDONIENSIS; DESULFOVIBRIO SP.; NEGIBACTERIA; OTUS; PROKARYOTA; VIBRIO;

EID: 0036151759     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.2.807-812.2002     Document Type: Article

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