Engineering bacteria for bioremediation of persistent organochlorine pesticide lindane (γ-hexachlorocyclohexane)

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 149, Issue , 2013, Pages 439-445

  Chaurasia, Akhilesh Kumar ^a,b   Adhya, Tapan Kumar ^c,d   Apte, Shree Kumar ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

^c CENTRAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d KIIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

LinA2 overexpression; Lindane bioremediation; Lindane toxicity and detection; Recombinant E. coli Anabaena strains

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CYCLOHEXANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ENCODING; ISOMERS; NITROGEN FIXATION; POLLUTION; TOXICITY;

ENGINEERING BACTERIA; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; OVER-EXPRESSION; PERSISTENT ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; RECOMBINANT E. COLI; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; TOXIC PESTICIDES; VISUAL DEGRADATIONS;

INSECTICIDES;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHAPERONIN 60; LINDANE;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; GROWTH RATE; HCH; INHIBITION; NITROGEN FIXATION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PADDY FIELD; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINATION; RESPIRATION;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIODEGRADATION; BIOENGINEERING; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH INHIBITION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOMER; LIGHT; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOAUTOTROPH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS;

ANABAENA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS;

LINA2 OVEREXPRESSION; LINDANE BIOREMEDIATION; LINDANE TOXICITY AND DETECTION; RECOMBINANT E. COLI/ANABAENA STRAINS;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LINDANE; PESTICIDES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPHINGOMONAS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 84885699275     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.09.084     Document Type: Article

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