Rate of microbial transformation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a chromatographic quantification procedure

S E Herbes, L R Schwall, G A Williams
1977 Applied and Environmental Microbiology  
A chromatographic procedure has been developed for isolating and quantifying microbial transformation products of "4C-labeled polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Transformation rates of naphthalene, anthracene, benz(a)anthracene, and benz(a)pyrene by a mixed bacterial population have been measured. With this procedure, extremely slow or incomplete transformations may be quantified that would not be detectable by previously used techniques.
doi:10.1128/aem.34.2.244-246.1977 fatcat:sqs55h2izjdhzdyoe6p53vwgs4