Microbial transformation of synthetic estrogen 17α-ethinylestradiol

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3325-3335

  Cajthaml, Tomáš ^a   Křesinová, Zdena ^a   Svobodová, Kateřina ^a   Sigler, Karel ^a   Řezanka, Tomáš ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

17 Ethinylestradiol; Endocrine disrupters; Ligninolytic fungi; Microbial biodegradation

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; ANAEROBIC DEGRADATION; AQUIFER MATERIALS; AUTOTROPHIC AMMONIA-OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; BACTERIAL DEGRADATION; CO-METABOLIC DEGRADATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIAS; IRON-REDUCING CONDITIONS; LACCASES; LIGNIN PEROXIDASE; MANGANESE-DEPENDENT PEROXIDASE; MICROBIAL BIODEGRADATION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL TRANSFORMATION; NATURAL ESTROGEN; SEWAGE-TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT; VERSATILE PEROXIDASE; WATER-SEDIMENTS;

ALGAE; AQUIFERS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENTS; FUNGI; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MANGANESE; METAL RECOVERY; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SORPTION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DEGRADATION;

AMMONIA; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GROUND WATER; IRON; LACCASE; LIGNIN PEROXIDASE; MANGANESE PEROXIDASE; NITRATE; PEROXIDASE; SULFATE;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIC CONDITIONS; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AQUIFER; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BJERKANDERA; CEPHALOSPORIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETEROTROPH; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; OXIDATION; PHANEROCHAETE; PYCNOPORUS; REVIEW; RHODOCOCCUS; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SPHINGOBACTERIUM; SPHINGOMONAS; TRAMETES VERSICOLOR; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTROGENS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FUNGI;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 74249092500     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.06.027     Document Type: Review

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