Anaerobic microbial dehalogenation

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2004, Pages 43-73

  Smidt, Hauke ^a   De Vos, Willem M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Genomics; Halorespiring bacteria; Metabolic diversity; Reductive dehalogenase

Indexed keywords

MICROBIAL ENZYME; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASE; TETRACHLOROETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETOBACTER; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON SOURCE; COMPETITION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DEHALOGENATION; DESULFOVIBRIO; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; METHANOSARCINA; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHROBACTRUM; OXIDATION; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; REDUCTION; REVIEW; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; RHODOSPIRILLUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THAUERA; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

ACETOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DESULFOVIBRIO; METHANOSARCINA; OCHROBACTRUM; PHOTOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; RHODOSPIRILLUM; THAUERA;

EID: 9244251590     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.58.030603.123600     Document Type: Review

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