Schwertmannite formation adjacent to bacterial cells in a mine water treatment plant and in pure cultures of ferrovum myxofaciens

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 7685-7692

  Hedrich, Sabrina ^a,c   Lünsdorf, Heinrich ^b   Kleeberg, Reinhard ^a   Heide, Gerhard ^a   Seifert, Jana ^a,d   Schlömann, Michael ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELLS; CELL SURFACES; FERROUS IRON; IRON OXIDATION; IRON OXIDIZING BACTERIA; JAROSITES; MINE WATERS; MINERAL PHASE; PURE CULTURE; SCHWERTMANNITE; TREATMENT PLANTS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOMINERALIZATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES; GROUNDWATER; IRON; MINE FLOODING; PILOT PLANTS; SILICATE MINERALS; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

FERROUS ION; JAROSITE; MINE WATER; MINERAL; SCHWERTMANNITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; ENCRUSTATION; IRON; LABORATORY METHOD; MINE; MINERAL; MINERALIZATION; OXIDATION; PH; SULFATE; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FERROVUM MYXOFACIENS; IRON OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; MINING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PH; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; IRON COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MINING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80052751039     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201564g     Document Type: Article

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