Isolation of Acetobacterium sp. strain AG, which reductively debrominates octa- and Pentabrominated diphenyl ether technical mixtures

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1110-1117

  Ding, Chang ^a   Chow, Wai Ling ^a   He, Jianzhong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBROMINATE; DEBROMINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DIPHENYL ETHER; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; N-NONANE; PENTA-BDE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); TECHNICAL MIXTURES; TRICHLOROETHENES;

MIXTURES; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIAL DNA; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PBDE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ACETOBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROFLEXI; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLLUTANT;

ACETOBACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHLOROFLEXI; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84874726500     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02919-12     Document Type: Article

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