U(VI) sequestration in hydroxyapatite produced by microbial glycerol 3-phosphate metabolism

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5773-5778

  Shelobolina, Evgenya S ^a   Konishi, Hiromi ^a   Xu, Huifang ^a   Roden, Eric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL GROUNDWATER; CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; GLYCEROL PHOSPHATE; HIGH CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL ENUMERATION; MICROBIAL GLYCEROL; NITRATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS; OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;

APATITE; AQUIFERS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; DISSOLUTION; GLYCEROL; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROXYAPATITE; METABOLISM; METAL REFINING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SILICATE MINERALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

MINERALS;

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; GROUND WATER; HYDROXYAPATITE; RNA 16S; URANIUM;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHATE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY); URANIUM;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; ENERGY RESOURCE; HYDROLYSIS; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PH; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS RHODESIAE; SEDIMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DURAPATITE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URANIUM; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 70149113225     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00628-09     Document Type: Article

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