Effects of elevated temperature on Dehalococcoides dechlorination performance and DNA and RNA biomarker abundance

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 712-718

  Fletcher, Kelly E ^b   Costanza, Jed ^a,b   Cruz Garcia, Claribel ^b   Ramaswamy, Nivedhya S ^b,c   Pennell, Kurt D ^d   Löffler, Frank E ^b,e,f,g,h  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^d Tufts University   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^g University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^h OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; CONTAMINATED SOURCES; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; EXPRESSION MEASUREMENTS; GENE TRANSCRIPTS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASES; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TETRACHLOROETHENE; THERMAL TREATMENT; TRICHLOROETHENES; UP-REGULATION; VINYL CHLORIDES;

CELL CULTURE; DECHLORINATION; ETHYLENE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; ETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; DECHLORINATION; DNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; RNA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; COOLING; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE STRESS; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHLORINE; CHLOROFLEXI; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HALOGENATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; RNA, BACTERIAL; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 78651386906     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1023477     Document Type: Article

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