Soil bacterium Pseudomonas sp: Destroyer of mustard gasm hydrolysis products

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1033-1039

  Medvedeva, Nadezda ^a   Polyak, Yulia ^a   Zaytseva, Tatyana ^a   Zinovieva, Svetlana ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Chemical weapons; Mustard gas; Thiodiglycol

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; MERCAPTOETHANOL; MUSTARD GAS; THIODIACETIC ACID; THIODYGLYCOL; THIOGLYCOLIC ACID; THIOLACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON SOURCE; CELL METABOLISM; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SOIL MICROFLORA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; HYDROLYSIS; MUSTARD GAS; PSEUDOMONAS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548508663     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.200700011     Document Type: Article

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