Uranium reduction

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2006, Pages 149-166

  Wall, Judy D ^a   Krumholz, Lee R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; c type cytochromes; Nanowires; Uraninite; Uranium reoxidation

Indexed keywords

MINERAL; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANINITE; URANIUM;

ACCELERATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; DESULFOSPOROSINUS; DESULFOSPOROSINUS ORIENTIS; DESULFOTOMACULUM; DESULFOTOMACULUM REDUCENS; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; ELECTRON; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; METAL METABOLISM; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REDUCTION; REVIEW; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA ALGAE; SHEWANELLA PUTREFACIENS; THERMOTERRABACTERIUM FERRIREDUCENS;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; GEOBACTER; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SHEWANELLA; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 33750363493     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.59.030804.121357     Document Type: Review

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