Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9466082 | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2005 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Heavy metal chelation property of exopolysaccharide produced by Enterobacter cloaceae, a marine bacterium, isolated from the West Coast of India, is reported in this paper. The exopolysaccharide demonstrated excellent chelating properties with respect to cadmium (65%) followed by copper (20%) and cobalt (8%) at 100Â mg/l heavy metal concentration. However, it could not chelate mercury. A comparative study of the percentage biosorption of the above mentioned metals is presented here.
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Authors
Anita Iyer, Kalpana Mody, Bhavanath Jha,