Monitoring abundance and expression of "Dehalococcoides" species chloroethene-reductive dehalogenases in a tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating flow column

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5695-5703

  Behrens, Sebastian ^a   Azizian, Mohammad F ^b   McMurdie, Paul J ^a   Sabalowsky, Andrew ^b   Dolan, Mark E ^b   Semprini, Lew ^b   Spormann, Alfred M ^a,c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHALOGENATION; ETHYLENE; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

16S RRNA; CHLOROETHENE; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DIFFERENT SECTIONS; FUNCTIONAL GENES; NUCLEIC ACID EXTRACTS; REAL-TIME PCR; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASE; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASES; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENATION; TETRACHLOROETHENE;

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL);

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHLOROETHANE; DEHALOGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACHLOROETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; TETRACHLOROETHENE DEHALOGENASE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECHLORINATION; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHYLENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDE; FIRMICUTES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLOROFLEXI; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; FIRMICUTES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLOROFLEXI; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 52649143323     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00926-08     Document Type: Article

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