Plutonium(IV) reduction by the metal-reducing bacteria Geobacter metallireducens GS15 and Shewanella oneidensis MR1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 5897-5903

  Boukhalfa, Hakim ^a,b   Icopini, Gary A ^a   Reilly, Sean D ^a   Neu, Mary P ^a,b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; COMPLEXATION; CONTAMINATION; LIGANDS; PLUTONIUM; REDUCTION;

EDTA; ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; METAL-REDUCING BACTERIA; METALLIREDUCENS; REMEDIAL STRATEGY;

BACTERIA;

ACTINIDE; EDETIC ACID; PLUTONIUM;

BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLUTONIUM; REDUCTION; REMEDIATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOREMEDIATION; CELL SUSPENSION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; REDUCTION; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GEOBACTER; METALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLUTONIUM; SHEWANELLA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS;

EID: 34648833677     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00747-07     Document Type: Article

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