Role of bicarbonate as a pH buffer and electron sink in microbial dechlorination of chloroethenes

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Delgado, Anca G ^a,b   Parameswaran, Prathap ^a   Fajardo Williams, Devyn ^a   Halden, Rolf U ^a,c   Krajmalnik Brown, Rosa ^a,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetogen; Alkalinity; Bicarbonate competition; Dehalococcoides; pH range; Trichloroethylene

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; BUFFER; METHANE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOREACTOR; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CENTRIFUGATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BICARBONATES; BUFFERS; CHLOROFLEXI; ELECTRONS; HALOGENATION; HEPES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 84866091572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-11-128     Document Type: Article

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