Linking specific heterotrophic bacterial populations to bioreduction of uranium and nitrate in contaminated subsurface sediments by using stable isotope probing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 8197-8200

  Akob, Denise M ^a,c   Kerkhof, Lee ^b   Küsel, Kirsten ^c   Watson, David B ^d   Palumbo, Anthony V ^d   Kostka, Joel E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL POPULATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOREDUCTIONS; BIOSTIMULATION; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING PROCESS; FE REDUCTIONS; MICROBIAL GROUPS; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; NITRATE REDUCTION; STABLE-ISOTOPE PROBING; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ETHANOL; IRON COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; URANIUM;

ISOTOPES;

ALCOHOL; BACTERIAL DNA; FERRIC ION; NITRATE; URANIUM;

BACTERIUM; DOMINANCE; ETHANOL; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; NITRATE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; REDUCTION; REMEDIATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; HETEROTROPHY; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLLUTANT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ETHANOL; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; ISOTOPE LABELING; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; URANIUM;

EID: 83055177075     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05247-11     Document Type: Article

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