Functional profiling of mercuric reductase (<it>mer </it>A) genes in biofilm communities of a technical scale biocatalyzer

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Bacterial mercury resistance is based on enzymatic reduction of ionic mercury to elemental mercury and has recently been demonstrated to be applicable for industrial wastewater clean-up. The long-term monitoring of such biocatalyser...

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Main Authors: von Canstein Harald, Pauling Björg V, Fehr Wanda, Felske Andreas DM, Wagner-Döbler Irene
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2003-10-01
Series:BMC Microbiology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/3/22