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Rainer U. Meckenstock
Researcher at University of Duisburg-Essen
Publications - 148
Citations - 9703
Rainer U. Meckenstock is an academic researcher from University of Duisburg-Essen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Isotope fractionation & Stable isotope ratio. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 143 publications receiving 8554 citations. Previous affiliations of Rainer U. Meckenstock include Helmholtz Zentrum München & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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Stable isotope fractionation analysis as a tool to monitor biodegradation in contaminated acquifers.
TL;DR: Under what circumstances SIFA can be used for a qualitative or even a quantitative assessment of biodegradation in the environment is discussed, and advances in the instrumental development for stable isotope analysis are mentioned if it is important for the understanding of the application.
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Compound-specific stable isotope analysis of organic contaminants in natural environments: a critical review of the state of the art, prospects, and future challenges
Torsten C. Schmidt,Luc Zwank,Martin Elsner,Michael Berg,Rainer U. Meckenstock,Stefan B. Haderlein +5 more
TL;DR: An alternative scheme to evaluate isotope data is outlined that would enable estimates of position-specific kinetic isotope effects and, thus, allow one to extract mechanistic chemical and biochemical information.
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Anaerobic Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons : from Enzymatic Reactions to the Environment
Ralf Rabus,Matthias Boll,Johann Heider,Rainer U. Meckenstock,Wolfgang Buckel,Oliver Einsle,Ulrich Ermler,Bernard T. Golding,Robert P. Gunsalus,Peter M. H. Kroneck,Martin Krüger,Tillmann Lueders,Berta M. Martins,Florin Musat,Hans H. Richnow,Bernhard Schink,Jana Seifert,Maciej Szaleniec,Tina Treude,G. Matthias Ullmann,Carsten Vogt,Martin von Bergen,Heinz Wilkes +22 more
TL;DR: Investigations funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft on the anaerobic microbial degradation of hydrocarbons ranged from isolation and enrichment of hitherto unknown hydrocarbon-degrading anaerobe microorganisms, discovery of novel reactions, detailed studies of enzyme mechanisms and structures to process-oriented in situ studies.
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Anaerobic naphthalene degradation by a sulfate-reducing enrichment culture.
TL;DR: The metabolites identified suggest a stepwise reduction of the aromatic ring system before ring cleavage in naphthalene degradation by a sulfate-reducing enrichment culture, which was studied by substrate utilization tests and identification of metabolites by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
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Anaerobic degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
TL;DR: The biochemical degradation pathways were studied with naphthalene-degrading pure and enrichment cultures and revealed that 2-naphthoic acid is a central metabolite, indicating that further degradation goes via cyclohexane derivatives and not via aromatic compounds.