Iron-oxidizing and leaching activities of sulphur-grown Thiobacillus ferrooxidans cells on other substrates: Effect of culture pH

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-61

  Curutchet, Gustavo ^a   Donati, Edgardo ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional de La Plata   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Sulphur grown; Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; HYDROPHOBICITY; IRON; LEACHING; OXIDATION; PH EFFECTS; PROTONS; SULFUR;

LEACH COVELLITE;

CELL CULTURE;

IRON; SULFUR;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURFACE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HYDROPHOBICITY; LEACHING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PH;

THIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS;

EID: 0034233062     PISSN: 13891723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1723(00)80034-1     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Recent advances in microbial mining
2. Biological fundamentals of mineral leaching processes
3. Industrial practice and the biology of leaching of metals from ores. The 1997 Pan Labs Lecture
4. Mining with Microbes
5. Production of ferrous ions as intermediates during aerobic sulfur oxidation in Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
6. Oxidation of ferrous iron and elemental sulfur by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
7. Comparison of iron and sulfur oxidation in Thiobacillus ferrooxidans: Inhibition of iron oxidation by growth on sulfur
8. Effect of sulfur on metabolism by iron-grown Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
9. Bacterial attachment: Its role in bioleaching processes
10. Sulphur chemistry, biofilm, and the (in)direct attack mechanism: A critical evaluation of bacterial leaching
11. Studies on the chemoautotrophic iron bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. I. An improved medium and a harvesting procedure for securing high cellular yields
12. Electrophoretic mobility and hydrophobicity as a measure to predict the initial steps of bacterial adhesion
13. Surface chemistry of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans relevant to adhesion on mineral surfaces
14. Cell hydrophobicity and sulfur adhesion of Thiobacillus thiooxidans
15. The role of exopolymers in the bioleaching of non-ferrous metal sulphide
16. Interfacial phenomena affecting the adhesion of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans to sulphide mineral surfaces
17. Effect of external pH perturbations on in vivo protein synthesis by the acidophilic bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
18. Influence of lipopolysaccharides on the attachment of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans to minerals
19. Bacterial attachment in aquatic environments: A diversity of surfaces and adhesion strategies
20. Sulfur-binding protein of flagella of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
21. Influence of exopolymers produced by bacterial cells on hydrophobicity of substrate surface
22. Ferrous sulphate oxidation using Thiobacillus ferrooxidans: A Review
23. Ferric iron reduction by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans at extremely low pH-values
24. The kinetics of the chemiosmotic proton circuit of the iron-oxidizing bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
25. Identification of two outer membrane proteins involved in the oxidation of sulphur compounds in Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
26. Phosphorylation of GroEL, DnaK and other proteins from Thiobacillus ferrooxidans grown under different conditions
27. Biological oxidation of ferrous sulphate by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans: A review on the kinetic aspects