Biodegradation of endocrine disruptors in solid-liquid two-phase partitioning systems by enrichment cultures

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4701-4711

  Villemur, Richard ^a   Cunha dos Santos, Silvia Cristina ^a   Ouellette, Julianne ^a   Juteau, Pierre ^a,b   Lépine, François ^a   Déziel, Eric ^a  

^a INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

^b CEGEP de Saint Laurent   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCING; BACTERIAL COMPOSITION; EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; NATURALLY OCCURRING; TWO PHASE PARTITIONING BIOREACTOR; TWO-PHASE PARTITIONING SYSTEM;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; EMERGENCY ROOMS; MOLECULES; PHENOLS; RNA;

EFFLUENTS;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HYTREL; POLYESTER; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; URBAN AREA; URBAN DRAINAGE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYESTERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84880655941     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01239-13     Document Type: Article

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