Use of a Novel Fluorinated Organosulfur Compound to Isolate Bacteria Capable of Carbon-Sulfur Bond Cleavage

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1487-1493

  Van Hamme, Jonathan D ^a,c   Fedorak, Phillip M ^b   Foght, Julia M ^b   Gray, Murray R ^b   Dettman, Heather D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR UPGRADING TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHEMICAL BONDS; DESULFURIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VISCOSITY;

BACTERIAL STRAINS; BOND CLEAVAGE;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

ALCOHOL; ALKYL GROUP; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BIS(3 PENTAFLUOROPHENYLPROPYL)SULFIDE; CARBON; DIBENZOTHIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOSULFUR DERIVATIVE; PETROLEUM; SULFIDE; SULFINATE; SULFONE; SULFOXIDE; SULFUR; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFURIZATION; FLUORINATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; RHODOCOCCUS; VISCOSITY;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; PETROLEUM; RHODOCOCCUS; SULFIDES; SULFUR; VISCOSITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS SP.; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 1642270691     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1487-1493.2004     Document Type: Article

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