Simultaneous determination of mercury methylation and demethylation capacities of various sulfate-reducing bacteria using species-specific isotopic tracers

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 337-344

  Bridou, Romain ^a   Monperrus, Mathilde ^a   Gonzalez, Pablo Rodriguez ^a   Guyoneaud, Rémy ^a   Amouroux, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Demethylation; Isolated bacteria; Isotopic tracers; Mercury methylation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MECHANISM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAINS; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; DEMETHYLATION; END-PRODUCTS; ISOLATED BACTERIA; ISOTOPIC TRACER; KINETIC EXPERIMENT; MERCURY METHYLATION; MERCURY SPECIES; METHYL MERCURY; NITRATE RESPIRATION; OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION; PURE CULTURE; REVERSIBLE PROCESS; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; SPECIES CONCENTRATION; SULFATE REDUCING; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFATE REDUCTION; TRANSFORMATION RATES;

ALKYLATION; BACTERIOLOGY; DEGRADATION; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METHYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RATE CONSTANTS;

BACTERIA;

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; NITRATE; SULFATE; TRACER;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; TRACER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DEMETHYLATION; FERMENTATION; INCUBATION TIME; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; KINETICS; METHYLATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA;

DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFOVIBRIO; KINETICS; MERCURY; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78651348132     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.395     Document Type: Article

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