Changes in quinone profiles of hot spring microbial mats with a thermal gradient

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 198-205

  Hiraishi, Akira ^a   Umezawa, Taichi ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroyuki ^b   Kato, Kenji ^c   Maki, Yonosuke ^d  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 BENZOQUINONE; MENAQUINONE; PHYTOMENADIONE; PLASTOQUINONE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOENERGY; BIOFILM; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CYANOBACTERIUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; SULFUR BACTERIUM; THERMAL SPRING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXUS; CYANOBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 0032908356     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.1.198-205.1999     Document Type: Article

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