Kevin R. Sowers - Publications

Affiliations: 
Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD 
Area:
Environmental Sciences, Environmental, Microbiology

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2019 Needham T, Payne RB, Sowers KR, Ghosh U. Kinetics of PCB Microbial Dechlorination Explained by Freely Dissolved Concentration in Sediment Microcosms. Environmental Science & Technology. PMID 31132852 DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Est.9B01088  0.434
2019 Kaya D, Sowers KR, Demirtepe H, Stiell B, Baker JE, Imamoglu I, Kjellerup BV. Assessment of PCB contamination, the potential for in situ microbial dechlorination and natural attenuation in an urban watershed at the East Coast of the United States. The Science of the Total Environment. 683: 154-165. PMID 31129325 DOI: 10.1016/J.Scitotenv.2019.05.193  0.47
2019 Payne RB, Ghosh U, May HD, Marshall CW, Sowers KR. Response to "Comment on 'A Pilot-Scale Field Study: In Situ Treatment of PCB-Impacted Sediments with Bioamended Activated Carbon'". Environmental Science & Technology. PMID 31042364 DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Est.9B02107  0.333
2019 Capozzi SL, Bodenreider C, Prieto A, Payne RB, Sowers KR, Kjellerup BV. Colonization and growth of dehalorespiring biofilms on carbonaceous sorptive amendments. Biofouling. 1-9. PMID 30786761 DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2018.1563892  0.428
2019 Payne RB, Ghosh U, May HD, Marshall CW, Sowers KR. A Pilot-Scale Field Study: In Situ Treatment of PCB-Impacted Sediments with Bioamended Activated Carbon. Environmental Science & Technology. PMID 30698958 DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Est.8B05019  0.507
2017 Payne RB, Ghosh U, May HD, Marshall CW, Sowers KR. Mesocosm Studies on the Efficacy of Bioamended Activated Carbon for Treating PCB-Impacted Sediment. Environmental Science & Technology. PMID 28809549 DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Est.7B01935  0.481
2017 Kaya D, Imamoglu I, Sanin FD, Sowers KR. A comparative evaluation of anaerobic dechlorination of PCB-118 and Aroclor 1254 in sediment microcosms from three PCB-impacted environments. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 341: 328-335. PMID 28800567 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhazmat.2017.08.005  0.423
2016 Kaya D, Imamoglu I, Sanin FD, Payne RB, Sowers KR. Potential risk reduction of Aroclor 1254 by microbial dechlorination in anaerobic Grasse River sediment microcosms. Journal of Hazardous Materials. PMID 27745958 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhazmat.2016.10.009  0.419
2016 Yogev U, Sowers KR, Mozes N, Gross A. Nitrogen and carbon balance in a novel near-zero water exchange saline recirculating aquaculture system Aquaculture. DOI: 10.1016/J.Aquaculture.2016.04.029  0.329
2016 Quinn BM, Apolinario EA, Gross A, Sowers KR. Characterization of a microbial consortium that converts mariculture fish waste to biomethane Aquaculture. 453: 154-162. DOI: 10.1016/J.Aquaculture.2015.12.002  0.436
2016 Aruety T, Brunner T, Ronen Z, Gross A, Sowers K, Zilberg D. Decreasing levels of the fish pathogen Streptococcus iniae following inoculation into the sludge digester of a zero-discharge recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) Aquaculture. 450: 335-341. DOI: 10.1016/J.Aquaculture.2015.08.002  0.413
2015 Demirtepe H, Kjellerup B, Sowers KR, Imamoglu I. Evaluation of PCB dechlorination pathways in anaerobic sediment microcosms using an anaerobic dechlorination model. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 296: 120-7. PMID 25913678 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhazmat.2015.04.033  0.392
2014 Lombard NJ, Ghosh U, Kjellerup BV, Sowers KR. Kinetics and threshold level of 2,3,4,5-tetrachlorobiphenyl dechlorination by an organohalide respiring bacterium. Environmental Science & Technology. 48: 4353-60. PMID 24625226 DOI: 10.1021/Es404265D  0.381
2014 Kjellerup BV, Naff C, Edwards SJ, Ghosh U, Baker JE, Sowers KR. Effects of activated carbon on reductive dechlorination of PCBs by organohalide respiring bacteria indigenous to sediments. Water Research. 52: 1-10. PMID 24440760 DOI: 10.1016/J.Watres.2013.12.030  0.465
2013 Jasso-Chávez R, Apolinario EE, Sowers KR, Ferry JG. MrpA functions in energy conversion during acetate-dependent growth of Methanosarcina acetivorans. Journal of Bacteriology. 195: 3987-94. PMID 23836862 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00581-13  0.307
2013 Payne RB, Fagervold SK, May HD, Sowers KR. Remediation of polychlorinated biphenyl impacted sediment by concurrent bioaugmentation with anaerobic halorespiring and aerobic degrading bacteria. Environmental Science & Technology. 47: 3807-15. PMID 23463900 DOI: 10.1021/Es304372T  0.757
2013 Chun CL, Payne RB, Sowers KR, May HD. Electrical stimulation of microbial PCB degradation in sediment. Water Research. 47: 141-52. PMID 23123087 DOI: 10.1016/J.Watres.2012.09.038  0.434
2013 Sowers KR, May HD. In situ treatment of PCBs by anaerobic microbial dechlorination in aquatic sediment: are we there yet? Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 24: 482-8. PMID 23102490 DOI: 10.1016/J.Copbio.2012.10.004  0.441
2012 Anderson KL, Apolinario EE, Sowers KR. Desiccation as a long-term survival mechanism for the archaeon Methanosarcina barkeri. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78: 1473-9. PMID 22194299 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.06964-11  0.311
2011 Payne RB, May HD, Sowers KR. Enhanced reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyl impacted sediment by bioaugmentation with a dehalorespiring bacterium. Environmental Science & Technology. 45: 8772-9. PMID 21902247 DOI: 10.1021/Es201553C  0.511
2011 Fagervold SK, Watts JE, May HD, Sowers KR. Effects of bioaugmentation on indigenous PCB dechlorinating activity in sediment microcosms. Water Research. 45: 3899-907. PMID 21601905 DOI: 10.1016/J.Watres.2011.04.048  0.753
2011 Park JW, Krumins V, Kjellerup BV, Fennell DE, Rodenburg LA, Sowers KR, Kerkhof LJ, Häggblom MM. The effect of co-substrate activation on indigenous and bioaugmented PCB dechlorinating bacterial communities in sediment microcosms Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 89: 2005-2017. PMID 21046375 DOI: 10.1007/S00253-010-2958-8  0.483
2009 Kjellerup BV, Kjeldsen KU, Lopes F, Abildgaard L, Ingvorsen K, Frølund B, Sowers KR, Nielsen PH. Biocorrosion and biofilm formation in a nutrient limited heating system subjected to alternating microaerophilic conditions Biofouling. 25: 727-737. PMID 20183131 DOI: 10.1080/08927010903114611  0.372
2009 Allen MA, Lauro FM, Williams TJ, Burg D, Siddiqui KS, De Francisci D, Chong KW, Pilak O, Chew HH, De Maere MZ, Ting L, Katrib M, Ng C, Sowers KR, Galperin MY, et al. The genome sequence of the psychrophilic archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii: the role of genome evolution in cold adaptation. The Isme Journal. 3: 1012-35. PMID 19404327 DOI: 10.1038/Ismej.2009.45  0.331
2009 Kopszywa J, Watts J, Sowers K. Examination of Dechlorinating Anaerobic Microbes in Poly-chlorinated Biphenyl Contaminated Sediments in the Chesapeake Bay Planta Medica. 75. DOI: 10.1055/s-2009-1216495  0.361
2009 Tal Y, Schreier HJ, Sowers KR, Stubblefield JD, Place AR, Zohar Y. Environmentally sustainable land-based marine aquaculture Aquaculture. 286: 28-35. DOI: 10.1016/J.Aquaculture.2008.08.043  0.4
2008 Kjellerup BV, Sun X, Ghosh U, May HD, Sowers KR. Site-specific microbial communities in three PCB-impacted sediments are associated with different in situ dechlorinating activities. Environmental Microbiology. 10: 1296-309. PMID 18312399 DOI: 10.1111/J.1462-2920.2007.01543.X  0.521
2008 May HD, Miller GS, Kjellerup BV, Sowers KR. Dehalorespiration with polychlorinated biphenyls by an anaerobic ultramicrobacterium. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74: 2089-94. PMID 18223104 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.01450-07  0.488
2008 Mirzoyan N, Parnes S, Singer A, Tal Y, Sowers K, Gross A. Quality of brackish aquaculture sludge and its suitability for anaerobic digestion and methane production in an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor Aquaculture. 279: 35-41. DOI: 10.1016/J.Aquaculture.2008.04.008  0.372
2007 Fagervold SK, May HD, Sowers KR. Microbial reductive dechlorination of aroclor 1260 in Baltimore harbor sediment microcosms is catalyzed by three phylotypes within the phylum Chloroflexi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73: 3009-18. PMID 17351091 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.02958-06  0.756
2006 May HD, Cutter LA, Miller GS, Milliken CE, Watts JE, Sowers KR. Stimulatory and inhibitory effects of organohalides on the dehalogenating activities of PCB-dechlorinating bacterium o-17. Environmental Science & Technology. 40: 5704-9. PMID 17007129 DOI: 10.1021/Es052521Y  0.483
2006 Maeder DL, Anderson I, Brettin TS, Bruce DC, Gilna P, Han CS, Lapidus A, Metcalf WW, Saunders E, Tapia R, Sowers KR. The Methanosarcina barkeri genome: comparative analysis with Methanosarcina acetivorans and Methanosarcina mazei reveals extensive rearrangement within methanosarcinal genomes. Journal of Bacteriology. 188: 7922-31. PMID 16980466 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00810-06  0.319
2006 Sowers KR, Watts JE. 33 The Study of Strictly Anaerobic Microorganisms Methods in Microbiology. 35: 757-782. DOI: 10.1016/S0580-9517(08)70036-9  0.437
2005 Fagervold SK, Watts JE, May HD, Sowers KR. Sequential reductive dechlorination of meta-chlorinated polychlorinated biphenyl congeners in sediment microcosms by two different Chloroflexi phylotypes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71: 8085-90. PMID 16332789 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.71.12.8085-8090.2005  0.741
2005 Apolinario EE, Jackson KM, Sowers KR. Development of a plasmid-mediated reporter system for in vivo monitoring of gene expression in the archaeon Methanosarcina acetivorans. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71: 4914-8. PMID 16085896 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.71.8.4914-4918.2005  0.316
2005 Watts JE, Fagervold SK, May HD, Sowers KR. A PCR-based specific assay reveals a population of bacteria within the Chloroflexi associated with the reductive dehalogenation of polychlorinated biphenyls. Microbiology (Reading, England). 151: 2039-46. PMID 15942010 DOI: 10.1099/Mic.0.27819-0  0.758
2005 Miller GS, Milliken CE, Sowers KR, May HD. Reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene to trans-dichloroethene and cis-dichloroethene by PCB-dechlorinating bacterium DF-1. Environmental Science & Technology. 39: 2631-5. PMID 15884359 DOI: 10.1021/Es048849T  0.396
2004 Shahamat M, Alavi M, Watts JEM, Gonzalez JM, Sowers KR, Maeder DW, Robb FT. Development of two PCR-based techniques for detecting helical and coccoid forms of Helicobacter pylori Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 42: 3613-3619. PMID 15297506 DOI: 10.1128/Jcm.42.8.3613-3619.2004  0.342
2004 Milliken CE, Meier GP, Sowers KR, May HD. Chlorophenol production by anaerobic microorganisms: transformation of a biogenic chlorinated hydroquinone metabolite. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70: 2494-6. PMID 15066848 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.70.4.2494-2496.2004  0.433
2004 Drenzek NJ, Eglinton TI, Wirsen CO, Sturchio NC, Heraty LJ, Sowers KR, Wu Q, May HD, Reddy CM. Invariant chlorine isotopic signatures during microbial PCB reductive dechlorination. Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987). 128: 445-8. PMID 14720486 DOI: 10.1016/J.Envpol.2003.09.006  0.409
2004 Milliken CE, Meier GP, Watts JE, Sowers KR, May HD. Microbial anaerobic demethylation and dechlorination of chlorinated hydroquinone metabolites synthesized by basidiomycete fungi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70: 385-92. PMID 14711667 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.70.1.385-392.2004  0.426
2003 Tal Y, Watts JEM, Schreier SB, Sowers KR, Schreier HJ. Characterization of the microbial community and nitrogen transformation processes associated with moving bed bioreactors in a closed recirculated mariculture system Aquaculture. 215: 187-202. DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(02)00372-1  0.377
2002 Wu Q, Milliken CE, Meier GP, Watts JE, Sowers KR, May HD. Dechlorination of chlorobenzenes by a culture containing bacterium DF-1, a PCB dechlorinating microorganism. Environmental Science & Technology. 36: 3290-4. PMID 12188356 DOI: 10.1021/Es0158612  0.435
2002 Cavicchioli R, Siddiqui KS, Andrews D, Sowers KR. Low-temperature extremophiles and their applications. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 13: 253-61. PMID 12180102 DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(02)00317-8  0.335
2002 Galagan JE, Nusbaum C, Roy A, Endrizzi MG, Macdonald P, FitzHugh W, Calvo S, Engels R, Smirnov S, Atnoor D, Brown A, Allen N, Naylor J, Stange-Thomann N, DeArellano K, ... ... Sowers KR, et al. The genome of M. acetivorans reveals extensive metabolic and physiological diversity. Genome Research. 12: 532-42. PMID 11932238 DOI: 10.1101/Gr.223902  0.34
2002 Wu Q, Watts JE, Sowers KR, May HD. Identification of a bacterium that specifically catalyzes the reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls with doubly flanked chlorines. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 68: 807-12. PMID 11823222 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.68.2.807-812.2002  0.465
2001 Watts JEM, Wu Q, Schreier SB, May HD, Sowers KR. Comparative analysis of polychlorinated biphenyl-dechlorinating communities in enrichment cultures using three different molecular screening techniques Environmental Microbiology. 3: 710-719. PMID 11846761 DOI: 10.1046/J.1462-2920.2001.00247.X  0.434
2001 Cutter LA, Watts JE, Sowers KR, May HD. Identification of a microorganism that links its growth to the reductive dechlorination of 2,3,5,6-chlorobiphenyl. Environmental Microbiology. 3: 699-709. PMID 11846760 DOI: 10.1046/J.1462-2920.2001.00246.X  0.478
2001 Drenzek NJ, Eglinton TI, Wirsen CO, May HD, Wu Q, Sowers KR, Reddy CM. The absence and application of stable carbon isotopic fractionation during the reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls Environmental Science and Technology. 35: 3310-3313. PMID 11529569 DOI: 10.1021/Es010547T  0.453
2000 Lipman RSA, Sowers KR, Hou YM. Synthesis of cysteinyl-tRNA(Cys) by a genome that lacks the normal cysteine-tRNA synthetase Biochemistry. 39: 7792-7798. PMID 10869184 DOI: 10.1021/Bi0004955  0.336
2000 Elberson MA, Malekzadeh F, Yazdi MT, Kameranpour N, Noori-Daloii MR, Matte MH, Shahamat M, Colwell RR, Sowers KR. Cellulomonas persica sp. nov. and Cellulomonas iranensis sp. nov., mesophilic cellulose-degrading bacteria isolated from forest soils International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 50: 993-996. PMID 10843037 DOI: 10.1099/00207713-50-3-993  0.324
2000 Wu Q, Sowers KR, May HD. Establishment of a polychlorinated biphenyl-dechlorinating microbial consortium, specific for doubly flanked chlorines, in a defined, sediment-free medium Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 66: 49-53. PMID 10618202 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.66.1.49-53.2000  0.505
1999 Hamann CS, Sowers KR, Lipman RSA, Hou YM. An archaeal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase missing from genomic analysis Journal of Bacteriology. 181: 5880-5884. PMID 10482537 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.181.18.5880-5884.1999  0.326
1998 Holoman TR, Elberson MA, Cutter LA, May HD, Sowers KR. Characterization of a defined 2,3,5, 6-tetrachlorobiphenyl-ortho-dechlorinating microbial community by comparative sequence analysis of genes coding for 16S rRNA. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 64: 3359-67. PMID 9726883 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.64.9.3359-3367.1998  0.439
1998 Cutter L, Sowers KR, May HD. Microbial dechlorination of 2,3,5,6-tetrachlorobiphenyl under anaerobic conditions in the absence of soil or sediment Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 64: 2966-2969. PMID 9687458 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.64.8.2966-2969.1998  0.472
1998 Wu Q, Sowers KR, May HD. Microbial reductive dechlorination of Aroclor 1260 in anaerobic slurries of estuarine sediments Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 64: 1052-1058. DOI: 10.1128/Aem.64.3.1052-1058.1998  0.499
1996 Berkaw M, Sowers KR, May HD. Anaerobic ortho dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls by estuarine sediments from Baltimore Harbor Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 62: 2534-2539. DOI: 10.1128/Aem.62.7.2534-2539.1996  0.504
1996 Apolinario EA, Sowers KR. Plate colonization of Methanococcus maripaludis and Methanosarcina thermophila in a modified canning jar Fems Microbiology Letters. 145: 131-137. DOI: 10.1111/J.1574-6968.1996.Tb08567.X  0.342
1993 Sowers KR, Boone JE, Gunsalus RP. Disaggregation of Methanosarcina spp. and growth as single cells at elevated osmolarity Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 59: 3832-3839. DOI: 10.1128/Aem.59.11.3832-3839.1993  0.322
1988 Sowers KR, Gunsalus RP. Plasmid DNA from the acetotrophic methanogen Methanosarcina acetivorans Journal of Bacteriology. 170: 4979-4982. PMID 3170490 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.170.10.4979-4982.1988  0.328
1984 Sowers KR, Baron SF, Ferry JG. Methanosarcina acetivorans sp. nov., an Acetotrophic Methane-Producing Bacterium Isolated from Marine Sediments Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 47: 971-978. DOI: 10.1128/Aem.47.5.971-978.1984  0.402
1984 Sowers KR, Nelson MJ, Ferry JG. Growth of acetotrophic, methane-producing bacteria in a pH auxostat Current Microbiology. 11: 227-229. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01567165  0.318
1983 Sowers KR, Ferry JG. Isolation and characterization of a methylotrophic marine methanogen, Methanococcoides methylutens gen. nov., sp. nov Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 45: 684-690. DOI: 10.1128/Aem.45.2.684-690.1983  0.318
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