Mercury reduction and cell-surface adsorption by geobacter sulfurreducens PCA

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 10922-10930

  Hu, Haiyan ^a,b   Lin, Hui ^b   Zheng, Wang ^b   Rao, Balaji ^b   Feng, Xinbin ^c   Liang, Liyuan ^b   Elias, Dwayne A ^d   Gu, Baohua ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; INHIBITORY EFFECT; MERCURIC MERCURIES; MERCURY REDUCTION; PHOSPHATE BUFFERS; PSEUDO-FIRST ORDER KINETICS; SURFACE ADSORPTION;

ALKYLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBOXYLATION; CELLS; FILTRATION; MERCURY (METAL);

CYTOLOGY;

EDETIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; MEMBRANE ENZYME; MERCURY; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ADSORPTION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; BUFFER ZONE; CHEMICAL BONDING; CYTOCHROME; EDTA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INHIBITION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; MODEL VALIDATION; PH; PHOSPHATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; REDUCTION; THIOL; TRANSFORMATION;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOAVAILABILITY; CELL SURFACE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESORPTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE DELETION; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; INTERNALIZATION; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; REDUCTION;

ADSORPTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; GEOBACTER; MERCURY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 84885155958     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400527m     Document Type: Article

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