Existence of two kinds of sulfur-reducing systems in iron-oxidizing bacterium thiobacillu

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 813-819

  Ng, Kim Yong ^a   Inoue, Sayuri ^a   Fujioka, Akira ^a   Kamimura, Kazuo ^a   Sugio, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydrogen sulfide; Iron oxidizing bacterium; Sulfur reduction; Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000085539     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.813     Document Type: Article

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