Isolation and identification of an iron-oxidizing bacterium which can grow on tetrathionate medium and the properties of a tetrathionate- decomposing enzyme isolated from the bacterium

Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 233-238

  Sugio, Tsuyoshi ^a   Kanao, Tadayoshi ^a   Furukawa, Hirotaka ^a   Nagasawa, Toru ^a   Blake II, Robert C ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

chemolithotrophic bacterium; sulfur metabolism; tetrathionate decomposing enzyme; Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; IRON; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; THIOBACILLUS;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; THIOBACILLUS;

EID: 0029957217     PISSN: 0922338X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0922-338X(96)88813-1     Document Type: Article

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