Enhancing gold recovery from electronic waste via lixiviant metabolic engineering in Chromobacterium violaceum

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tay, Song Buck ^a   Natarajan, Gayathri ^b   Rahim, Muhammad Nadjad Bin Abdul ^a   Tan, Hwee Tong ^a   Chung, Maxey Ching Ming ^a,b   Ting, Yen Peng ^b   Yew, Wen Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANIDE; GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHROMOBACTERIUM; ELECTRONIC WASTE; GENE ORDER; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PROTEOMICS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CHROMOBACTERIUM; CYANIDES; ELECTRONIC WASTE; GENE ORDER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GOLD; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PROTEOMICS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84880772491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02236     Document Type: Article

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