Fermentation and sulfur reduction in the mat-building cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1752-1758

  Moezelaar, Roy ^a,b   Bijvank, Saskia M ^a   Stal, Lucas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

MICROCOLEUS CHTHONOPLASTES;

EID: 0029988943     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.5.1752-1758.1996     Document Type: Article

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