Amyloid-like adhesins produced by floc-forming and filamentous bacteria in activated sludge

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1517-1526

  Larsen, Poul ^a   Nielsen, Jeppe Lund ^a   Otzen, Daniel ^a,b   Nielsen, Per Halkjær ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MICROBIOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

AMYLOID ADHESINS; BIOFILM PROPERTIES; BIOVOLUME FRACTIONS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA;

PROTEINS;

ADHESIN; AMYLOID PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLYPHOSPHATE; THIOFLAVINE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; DIGITAL IMAGE; FLOCCULATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROBE; PROTEIN; STARCH; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AZOARCUS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDETES; BIOFILM; CHLOROFLEXI; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GORDONIA AMARAE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; THAUERA; THIOTHRIX; ZOOGLOEA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMYLOID; BACTERIA; FLOCCULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AQUASPIRILLUM; AZOARCUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CANDIDATUS MEGANEMA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GORDONIA AMARAE; KOULEOTHRIX AURANTIACA; THAUERA; THIOTHRIX; ZOOGLOEA;

EID: 40549140723     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02274-07     Document Type: Article

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