Microbial populations stimulated for hexavalent uranium reduction in uranium mine sediment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1337-1346

  Suzuki, Yohey ^a,d   Kelly, Shelly D ^b   Kemner, Kenneth M ^b   Banfield, Jillian F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOREMEDIATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; REDUCTION; SEDIMENTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URANIUM MINES;

MICROBIAL POPULATIONS;

URANIUM;

DNA; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SULFATE; SULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANINITE; URANIUM; URANIUM DERIVATIVE;

BIOREMEDIATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTION;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOSPOROSINUS; DIFFRACTION; DNA DETERMINATION; FERMENTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRECIPITATION; PROKARYOSIS; REDUCTION; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; STIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URANIUM MINE; WATER CONTAMINATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MINING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFATES; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; DESULFOSPOROSINUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0344837851     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.3.1337-1346.2003     Document Type: Article

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