Implicating the glutathione-gated potassium efflux system as a cause of electrophile-induced activated sludge deflocculation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 5569-5578

  Bott, Charles B ^a,b   Love, Nancy G ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POTASSIUM; SEWAGE TREATMENT; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EFFLUX; GLUTATHIONE-GATED POTTASIUM; MICROBIAL STRESS; THIOL-REACTIVE STRESSORS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

1 CHLORO 2,4 DINITROBENZENE; DITHIOTHREITOL; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; NIGERICIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM ION; REDUCING AGENT;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; FLUORESCENCE; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; SLUDGE DEFLOCCULATION; SLUDGE TREATMENT;

FLOCCULATION; GLUTATHIONE; KINETICS; NIGERICIN; POTASSIUM; SEWAGE; SPHINGOMONADACEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; NOVOSPHINGOBIUM; NOVOSPHINGOBIUM CAPSULATUM;

EID: 4644248856     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.9.5569-5578.2004     Document Type: Article

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