Anaerobic degradation of ethylbenzene by a new type of marine sulfate-reducing bacterium

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 760-768

  Kniemeyer, Olaf ^a   Fischer, Thomas ^b   Wilkes, Heinz ^c   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^a   Widdell, Friedrich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CELL CULTURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEDIMENTS; SULFATE MINERALS;

ANAEROBIC DEGRDATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

(1 PHENYLETHYL)SUCCINATE; 1 PHENYLETHANOL; 4 PHENYLPENTANOATE; ACETOPHENONE; ALKANE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZYL DERIVATIVE; CARBON; CARBOXYL GROUP; ETHYLBENZENE; FORMIC ACID; FUMARIC ACID; HEXANOIC ACID; HYDROCINNAMIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; NAPHTHALENE; PHENYLACETIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; RIBOSOME RNA; SUCCINIC ACID; SULFATE; SULFIDE; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALERIC ACID; XYLENE;

BIODEGRADATION; HYDROCARBON; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; CELL TYPE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CALIFORNIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFATES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0347033276     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.2.760-768.2003     Document Type: Article

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