Bacterial bio-resources for remediation of hexachlorocyclohexane

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 15086-15106

  Alvarez, Analía ^a,b   Benimeli, Claudia S ^a,c   Saez, Juliana M ^a   Fuentes, María S ^a   Cuozzo, Sergio A ^a,b   Polti, Marta A ^a,b   Amoroso, María J ^a,b,c  

^a PLANTA PILOTO DE PROCESOS INDUSTRIALES MICROBIOLÓGICOS PROIMI CONICET   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^c Universidad del Norte Santo Tomas de Aquino   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Organochlorine pesticides; Streptomyces genus; hexachlorocyclohexane

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; LINDANE; POLLUTANT;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLORIMETRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DECHLORINATION; ECOTOXICITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HENRY LAW CONSTANT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCTANOL AIR PARTITION COEFFICIENT; OCTANOL WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; REVIEW; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL; STREPTOMYCES; TEMPERATURE; VAPOR PRESSURE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER SOLUBILITY; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; POLLUTANT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; LINDANE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PLANTS;

EID: 84870724521     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms131115086     Document Type: Review

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