Detoxificabon of vinyl chloride to ethene coupled to growth of an anaerobic bacterium

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6944, 2003, Pages 62-65

  He, Jianzhong ^a   Ritalahti, Kirsti M ^a   Yang, Kun Un ^a   Koenigsberg, Stephen S ^c   Löffler, Frank E ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Regenesis Bioremediation Products   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DETOXIFICATION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROWTH KINETICS; POTABLE WATER;

POLLUTANTS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

DRINKING WATER; ETHYLENE; GROUND WATER; RNA 16S; SOLVENT; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE; CHLORIDE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DETOXIFICATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DETOXIFICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIOMASS; CHLORIDES; ETHYLENES; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; VINYL CHLORIDE;

EID: 0038264087     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01717     Document Type: Article

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