Anaerobic oxidation of thiosulfate to tetrathionate by obligately heterotrophic bacteria, belonging to the Pseudomonas stutzeri group

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-123

  Sorokin, Dimitry Yu ^a   Teske, Andreas ^b   Robertson, Lesley A ^c   Kuenen, J Gijs ^c  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Heterotrophic tetrathionate producing bacterium; Pseudomonas stutzeri

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; NITRITE REDUCTASE; RIBOSOME RNA; THIOSULFATE;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RNA SEQUENCE;

FLAVOBACTERIUM LUTESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS BALEARICA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 0032832667     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(99)00045-8     Document Type: Article

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