Mercury analysis of acid- and alkaline-reduced biological samples: Identification of meta-cinnabar as the major biotransformed compound in algae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 361-367

  Kelly, David ^a   Budd, Kenneth ^a   Lefebvre, Daniel D ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; ALGAE; CELL CULTURE; MERCURY (METAL); PROTEINS;

ALGAL CULTURES; CYSTEINE; MERCURY ANALYSIS; ORGANOMERCURIALS;

BIOASSAY;

3 CINNABAR; ACID; ALKALI; CYSTEINE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE; METHYLMERCURY; NUCLEOSIDE; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND; PROTEIN; THIOL; TIN CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MERCURY DERIVATIVE;

ACID; ALGAL CULTURE; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHELATE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); THIOL;

AERATION; AIR; ALGA; ALGAL CELL CULTURE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BLUE GREEN ALGA; CHELATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIMNOTHRIX PLANCTONICA; NONHUMAN; PH; PROKARYOTE; REDUCTION; SELENASTRUM MINUTUM; SYNTHESIS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; VOLATILIZATION;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; LIMNOTHRIX PLANCTONICA; PROKARYOTA; SELENASTRUM MINUTUM;

ALGAE, GREEN; CYANOBACTERIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 33644866159     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.1.361-367.2006     Document Type: Article

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