Benzoate-driven dehalogenation of chlorinated ethenes in microbial cultures from a contaminated aquifer

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1447-1456

  Bunge, Michael ^a,c   Kleikemper, Jutta ^a,d   Miniaci, Ciro ^a   Duc, Laurence ^a   Muusse, Margje G ^a   Hause, Gerd ^b   Zeyer, Josef ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d BMG Engineering Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Benzoate; Dehalococcoides; Desulfitobacterium; PCE; Reductive dechlorination; Syntrophus

Indexed keywords

DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; SYNTROPHUS;

CELLS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CONTAMINATION; DEHALOGENATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESTERS;

MICROORGANISMS;

ACETIC ACID; AGAROSE; BENZOIC ACID; CIS DICHLOROETHENE; ETHYLENE; HYDROGEN; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETATE; AQUIFER POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; DECHLORINATION; ELECTROKINESIS; ESTER; ETHYLENE; HALOGEN; HYDROGEN; MORPHOLOGY;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHLORINATION; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOGENATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; STIRRED REACTOR;

BACTERIA; BENZOATES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; DICHLOROETHYLENES; ECOSYSTEM; HALOGENATION; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; SYNTROPHUS;

EID: 34648822401     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-007-1097-3     Document Type: Article

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