Divalent base cations hamper Hg II uptake

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6645-6653

  Daguené, Valérie ^a   McFall, Emily ^a   Yumvihoze, Emmanuel ^a   Xiang, Shurong ^a   Amyot, Marc ^b   Poulain, Alexandre J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE CATIONS; BOREAL LAKES; CELL WALLS; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; DIVALENT CATION; GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; OUTER MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PASSIVE DIFFUSIONS; PERIPLASMIC SPACE; PROTECTIVE EFFECTS; WHOLE CELL;

BACTERIA; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKES; POSITIVE IONS;

MERCURY (METAL);

DIVALENT CATION; MERCURY;

ACIDIFICATION; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; MEMBRANE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PERMEABILITY; PH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL WALL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; IONIC STRENGTH; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; PH;

CATIONS, DIVALENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MERCURY;

EID: 84862513975     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300760e     Document Type: Article

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