@article {4590,
	title = {Reductive dechlorination of nonachlorobiphenyls and selected octachlorobiphenyls by microbial enrichment cultures},
	journal = {Environmental Science \& Technology},
	volume = {33},
	number = {20},
	year = {1999},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 248CJTimes Cited: 14Cited Reference Count: 19},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {3579-3585},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The anaerobic dechlorination of four octachlorobiphenyls [2,3,4,5,6,2{\textquoteright},3{\textquoteright},4{\textquoteright}-octachlorobiphenyl (23456-234-octaCB), 2345-2346-octaCB, 2345-2356-octaCB, and 23456-245-octaCB] and three nonachlorobiphenyls [23456-2345-nonaCB, 23456-2346-nonaCB, and 23456-2356-nonaCB] was investigated. The single congeners were added to two different previously studied microbial enrichment cultures, and the cultures were monitored over a period of 16 weeks. All seven congeners were reductively dechlorinated. The predominant dechlorination patterns for all congeners, in both cultures, showed meta-dechlorination of doubly flanked m-chlorines followed by meta-dechlorination of singly flanked m-chlorines. Some ortho- and para-dechlorination was also observed. All congeners had an initial concentration of 50 ppm in soil, and the extent of dechlorination over the 16-week period varied widely, from 38\% dechlorination of congener 23456-245-octaCB to only 1.4\% removal of congener 23456-2345-nonaCB.},
	keywords = {ANAEROBIC MICROORGANISMS, AROCLORS, CONGENERS, DECHLORINATION, ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS, POLYCHLORINATED-BIPHENYLS, REDUCTIVE, SLURRIES},
	isbn = {0013-936X},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000083257500016},
	author = {Kuipers, B. and Cullen, W. R. and Mohn, W. W.}
}
@article {3004,
	title = {DEGRADATION OF PHENANTHRENE AND PYRENE BY MICROORGANISMS ISOLATED FROM MARINE SEDIMENT AND SEAWATER},
	journal = {Science of the Total Environment},
	volume = {156},
	number = {1},
	year = {1994},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: PJ991Times Cited: 18Cited Reference Count: 40},
	month = {Nov},
	pages = {27-37},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Microorganisms which are able to degrade phenanthrene and pyrene were isolated from both seawater and sediment samples collected from a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) polluted environment, Kitimat Arm, British Columbia, Canada. Four strains from a seawater culture were isolated and examined. No additional PAH induction was necessary in the enrichment process, indicating that these PAH degrading microorganisms are previously exposed to PAHs in the environment under study. Microorganisms enriched with phenanthrene as the sole carbon and energy source also degraded pyrene readily. A metabolite, pyrene cis-4,5-dihydrodiol was observed from pyrene degradation, and this metabolite was further degraded after pyrene was utilized by the microorganisms.},
	keywords = {BIODEGRADATION, bioremediation, CONTAMINATED, DEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENT, ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS, MICROORGANISMS, MINERALIZATION, NAPHTHALENE, PAH, PHENANTHRENE, POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON, POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS, PYRENE, SEAWATER, SEDIMENT, SOIL},
	isbn = {0048-9697},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1994PJ99100004},
	author = {Cullen, W. R. and Li, X. F. and Reimer, K. J.}
}
