Using electron balances and molecular techniques to assess trichoroethene-induced shifts to a dechlorinating microbial community

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2230-2239

  Ziv El, Michal ^a   Popat, Sudeep C ^a   Parameswaran, Prathap ^a   Kang, Dae Wook ^a   Polasko, Alexandra ^a   Halden, Rolf U ^a   Rittmann, Bruce E ^a   Krajmalnik Brown, Rosa ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorinated ethene inhibition; Dehalococcoides; Fermenters; Homoacetogens; Methanogens

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED ETHENES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; ELECTRON-BALANCE; FIRMICUTES; GEOBACTER; GROWTH FACTOR; HOMOACETOGENS; LACTATE FERMENTATION; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES; PEAK CONCENTRATIONS; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRICHLOROETHENES;

DECHLORINATION; FERMENTERS; METHANOGENS; METHANOL; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACETIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; METHANOL; PROPIONIC ACID; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ACETOBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BATCH FERMENTATION; BIOREACTOR; CARBON SOURCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DEHALOGENATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FIRMICUTES; GEOBACTER; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEADY STATE;

ACETOBACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHLOROFLEXI; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTRONS; GEOBACTER; HALOGENATION; LACTIC ACID; METHANOL; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ACETOBACTERIUM; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; FIRMICUTES; GEOBACTER;

EID: 84864323540     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.24504     Document Type: Article

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