Microbial links between sulfate reduction and metal retention in uranium- and heavy metal-contaminated soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3143-3152

  Sitte, Jana ^a   Akob, Denise M ^a,b   Kaufmann, Christian ^a   Finster, Kai ^c   Banerjee, Dipanjan ^d,e   Burkhardt, Eva Maria ^a   Kostka, Joel E ^b   Scheinost, Andreas C ^d,e   Büchel, Georg ^a   Küsel, Kirsten ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONE LIBRARY; CONTAMINATED SOILS; CREEK BANKS; FE REDUCTIONS; GERMANY; HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATED SOILS; IN-SITU; METAL MOBILITY; METAL RETENTION; METAL SULFIDES; PORE WATERS; RADIOTRACER METHOD; REDUCED SOILS; REDUCTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS; SOIL INCUBATION; SOIL MICROCOSMS; SOLID-PHASE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFATE REDUCTION; URANIUM MINING; X-RAY ABSORPTION NEAR-EDGE STRUCTURE;

CLONING; COBALT; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY WATER; IRON COMPOUNDS; LEAD; METAL IONS; METALS; RIVERS; SOILS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

HEAVY METAL; SULFATE; URANIUM;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HEAVY METAL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RADIONUCLIDE; REDUCTION; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; TRANSFORMATION; URANIUM; XANES SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GERMANY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; PHYLOGENY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; GERMANY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALS, HEAVY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SULFATES; URANIUM;

GERMANY; RONNEBURG; THURINGIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIALES; DESULFOBACTERALES; DESULFOVIBRIONALES; GEOBACTERACEAE; SYNTROPHOBACTERACEAE;

EID: 77952263974     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00051-10     Document Type: Article

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