Transcriptional analysis of a Dehalococcoides-containing microbial consortium reveals prophage activation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1178-1186

  Waller, Alison S ^a,c   Hug, Laura A ^a   Mo, Kaiguo ^a   Radford, Devon R ^b   Maxwell, Karen L ^b   Edwards, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; CHLORINATED COMPOUNDS; CHLORINATED SOLVENT; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON DONORS; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; GENE TRANSCRIPTIONS; GEOBACTER; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINANTS; LIMITING CONDITION; LIPID METABOLISMS; METABOLIC ENERGY; METAGENOMES; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MIXED CULTURES; PROPHAGES; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASES; REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES; TRANSCRIPT LEVEL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT CONDITIONS; VINYL CHLORIDES;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; AMINO ACIDS; BIODEGRADATION; CELL CULTURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; GENES; METHANOL;

TRANSCRIPTION;

METHANOL; TRANSCRIPTOME; VINYL CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; DECHLORINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LIPID; METHANOL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMER; PROTEIN; REMEDIATION; STARVATION;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROPHAGE; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

METHANOL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOME; VINYL CHLORIDE; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES; GEOBACTER; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 84857080584     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06416-11     Document Type: Article

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