Engineering of Deinococcus radiodurans R1 for bioprecipitation of uranium from dilute nuclear waste

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 7873-7878

  Appukuttan, Deepti ^a   Rao, Amara Sambasiva ^a   Apte, Shree Kumar ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HEAVY METALS; MICROORGANISMS; PROTEINS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES;

BIOPRECIPITATION; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; GENE ENCODING; RECOMBINANT STRAIN;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; GENE PRODUCT; HEAVY METAL; PROTEIN PHON; RADIOISOTOPE; URANIUM; URANYL NITRATE;

BACTERIUM; GENE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PROTEIN; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; URANIUM; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOENGINEERING; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; GAMMA RADIATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR WASTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHON GENE; PRECIPITATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEINOCOCCUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PRECIPITATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; URANIUM;

DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHI;

EID: 33845545984     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01362-06     Document Type: Article

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