Detection and Characterization of a Dehalogenating Microorganism by Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Fingerprinting of 16S rRNA in a Sulfidogenic, 2-Bromophenol-Utilizing Enrichment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1169-1175

  Fennell, Donna E ^a   Rhee, Sung Keun ^a,b   Ahn, Young Beom ^a   Häggblom, Max M ^a   Kerkhof, Lee J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; DEHALOGENATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RNA;

ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; POLYMORPHISM;

MICROBIOLOGY;

2 BROMOPHENOL; 2 IODOPHENOL; 2,6 DIBROMOPHENOL; BROMINE DERIVATIVE; FORMIC ACID; HALOPHENOL; HYDROGEN; IODINE DERIVATIVE; LACTIC ACID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S; SULFATE; SULFITE; THIOSULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COCULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEHALOGENATION; DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIO LIKE BACTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA FINGERPRINTING; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROGEN; PHENOLS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO;

EID: 2342464829     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.2.1169-1175.2004     Document Type: Article

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