Conjugal transfer of plasmid pNB2 to activated sludge bacteria leads to 3-chloroaniline degradation in enrichment cultures

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 527-531

  Bathe, S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioaugmentation; Catabolic plasmid; Conjugation; Horizontal gene transfer; Transconjugant

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; DNA; GENE TRANSFER; GENES;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE BACTERIA; BATCH CULTURE; BIO-AUGMENTATION; CATABOLIC PLASMIDS; CHLOROANILINE; CONJUGATION; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MATINGS; TRANSCONJUGANTS;

ANILINE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 2642531924     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2004.01532.x     Document Type: Article

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