Evidences of non-reactive mercury-selenium compounds generated from cultures of Pseudomonas fluorescens

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1697-1703

  Yang, Dan Yi ^a   Chen, Yu Wei ^a   Belzile, Nelson ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detoxification; Mercury; Non reactive Hg Se compounds; P. fluorescens; Selenium

Indexed keywords

DIGESTION METHOD; IN-CELL; MERCURY; MOLAR RATIO; P. FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SE COMPOUNDS; SELENIDES; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE;

CELL CULTURE; DETOXIFICATION; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SELENIUM; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM; SODIUM SULFATE;

MERCURY (METAL);

DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; MERCURY; SELENIUM;

BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETOXIFICATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMOREACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOLUBILITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 79952002569     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.01.030     Document Type: Article

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