Bacterial cultures preferentially removing singly flanked chlorine substituents from chlorobenzenes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 8936-8942

  Hölscher, Tina ^a   Lisec, Jan ^b,c   Baani, Mohamed ^b,d   Duan, Tran Hoa ^a   Adrian, Lorenz ^a,b  

^a Helmholtzzentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ ^*  (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC SLUDGE; BACTERIAL CULTURES; CHLORINATED COMPOUNDS; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DICHLOROBENZENES; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; MODEL SUBSTRATES; MONO-CHLOROBENZENE; NESTED PCR; PENTACHLOROBENZENE; PLOTTING METHOD; SEWAGE PLANTS; SYNTHETIC MEDIUM; TRICHLOROBENZENE; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIOLOGY; CHLORINE; DECHLORINATION; OXYGEN; SEWAGE; VISUALIZATION;

BACTERIA;

1,2 DICHLOROBENZENE; 1,2,3 TRICHLOROBENZENE; 1,2,4 TRICHLOROBENZENE; 1,3 DICHLOROBENZENE; 1,3,5 TRICHLOROBENZENE; CHLORINE; CHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; PENTACHLOROBENZENE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; CHLORINE; CHLOROBENZENE; DECHLORINATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REMEDIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLUDGE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER TREATMENT;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLORINE; CHLOROBENZENES; DISINFECTANTS; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 78650290806     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101971m     Document Type: Article

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