Anaerobic respiration with elemental sulfur and with disulfides

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 353-381

  Hedderich, Reiner ^a   Klimmek, Oliver ^b   Kröger, Achim ^b   Dirmeier, Reinhard ^c   Keller, Martin ^c   Stetter, Karl O ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Inst fur Mikrobiol der Johann W   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disulfide respiration; Heterodisulfide reductase; Methanogenic archaea; Polysulfide reductase; Pyrodictium abyssi; Sulfur respiration; Wolinella succinogenes

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SULFUR;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; METHANOSARCINA; NONHUMAN; REDUCTION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; REVIEW; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; WOLINELLA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHANOSARCINALES; NEGIBACTERIA; PYRODICTIUM ABYSSI; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

EID: 0032449962     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(98)00035-7     Document Type: Article

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