Uranium biomineralization as a result of bacterial phosphatase activity: Insights from bacterial isolates from a contaminated subsurface

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 5701-5707

  Beazley, Melanie J ^a   Martinez, Robert J ^a   Sobecky, Patricia A ^a   Webb, Samuel M ^b   Taillefert, Martial ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; MICROORGANISMS; PH EFFECTS; PHOSPHATES; PRECIPITATES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STRAIN;

ENZYMATIC ACTIVITIES; PHOSPHATASE ACTIVITY; URANIUM PRECIPITATION;

WATER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATASE; URANIUM;

BIOMINERALIZATION; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; MICROORGANISMS; PH EFFECTS; PHOSPHATES; PRECIPITATES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STRAIN; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMINERALIZATION; BIOREMEDIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); URANIUM; WATER QUALITY;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOMINERALIZATION; BIOREMEDIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PH; POLLUTANT; PRECIPITATION; REDUCTION; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FRESH WATER; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PRECIPITATION; SOIL; SOLUBILITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TITRIMETRY; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34548060935     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es070567g     Document Type: Article

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