Evidence for Iron-Dependent Nitrate Respiration in the Dissimilatory Iron-Reducing Bacterium Geobacter metallireducens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3750-3752

  Senko, John M ^a,b   Stolz, John F ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; IRON; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 0035434111     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.8.3750-3752.2001     Document Type: Article

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