Aerobic and Anaerobic Toluene Degradation by a Newly Isolated Denitrifying Bacterium, Thauera sp. Strain DNT-1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1385-1392

  Shinoda, Yoshifumi ^a   Sakai, Yasuyoshi ^a   Uenishi, Hiroshi ^a   Uchihashi, Yasumitsu ^a   Hiraishi, Akira ^b   Yukawa, Hideaki ^c   Yurimoto, Hiroya ^a   Kato, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; DNA; ENZYME KINETICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TOLUENE;

AEROBIC ENVIRONMENTS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BENZYLSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; GENOMIC DNA; OXYGEN; TOLUENE; TOLUENE DIOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; TOLUENE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BSS GENE; CARBON SOURCE; DEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; GENE INDUCTION; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THAUERA; THAUERA DNT 1; TOD GENE;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON-CARBON LYASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; OXYGENASES; PHYLOGENY; RHODOCYCLACEAE; TOLUENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; THAUERA;

EID: 1642415111     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1385-1392.2004     Document Type: Article

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