Two new arsenate/sulfate-reducing bacteria: Mechanisms of arsenate reduction

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-57

  Macy, Joan M ^a   Santini, Joanne M ^a   Pauling, Björg V ^a   O'Neill, Andrew H ^b   Sly, Lindsay I ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arsenate reductase; Arsenate reduction; Arsenate resistance; Cytochrome c; Desulfomicrobium sp.; Desulfovibrio sp.; Sulfate reduction

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC ACID; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATALYSIS; DESULFOMICROBIUM; DESULFOVIBRIO; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOMICROBIUM; DESULFOMICROBIUM SP.; DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIO SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033963359     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050007     Document Type: Article

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