Uranyl precipitation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa via controlled polyphosphate metabolism

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 7404-7412

  Renninger, Neil ^a   Knopp, Roger ^b   Nitsche, Heino ^a,b   Clark, Douglas S ^a   Keasling, Jay D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GENES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SORPTION;

POLYPHOSPHATES; STARVATION; TIME RESOLVED LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY (TRLFS);

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

CARBON; HYDROXIDE; ION; PHOSPHATE; POLYPHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM DERIVATIVE; URANYL DERIVATIVE; URANYL HYDROXIDE; URANYL NITRATE; URANYL PHOSPHATE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY;

CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (PHOSPHATE GROUP ACCEPTOR); POLYPHOSPHATES; PRECIPITATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 10644238046     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.12.7404-7412.2004     Document Type: Article

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