Simultaneous utilization of acetate and hydrogen by Geobacter sulfurreducens and implications for use of hydrogen as an indicator of redox conditions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3069-3076

  Brown, Derick G ^a   Komlos, John ^b   Jaffé, Peter R ^b  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN; IRON; METHANOGENS; REDOX REACTIONS; REDUCTION;

ELECTRON DONORS; FIRST-ORDER DEGRADATION RATES; MULTI-SUBSTRATE KINETICS; TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTOR PROCESSES (TEAP);

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ACETIC ACID; GROUND WATER; HYDROGEN; INDICATOR;

ACETATE; HYDROGEN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; REDOX CONDITIONS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ACETATES; GEOBACTER; HYDROGEN; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 18344396655     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048613p     Document Type: Article

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