Bacterial cyanide degradation is under review: Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes CECT5344, a case of an alkaliphilic cyanotroph

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 269-274

  Luque Almagro, Victor M ^a   Blasco, Rafael ^b   Mart́nez Luque, Manuel ^a   Moreno Vivián, Conrado ^a   Castillo, Francisco ^a   Roldán, M Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cyanide; Cyanide degradation; Metal cyanide complex; Nitrile; Pseudomonas; Siderophore

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CYANIDE; CYTOCHROME; GOLD; METALLOPROTEIN; NITRILE; NITROGEN; PESTICIDE; SIDEROPHORE; STEEL;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BIODEGRADATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROPLATING INDUSTRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PSEUDOALCALIGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PSEUDOALCALIGENES;

EID: 79551485921     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0390269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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