Anaerobic oxidation of arsenite in Mono Lake water and by a facultative, arsenite-oxidizing chemoautotroph, strain MLHE-1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 4795-4802

  Oremland, Ronald S ^a   Hoeft, Shelley E ^a   Santini, Joanne M ^a   Bano, Nasreen ^a   Hollibaugh, Ryan A ^a   Hollibaugh, James T ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BACTERIA; DNA; GENES; GROWTH KINETICS; LAKES; NITRATES; OXIDATION; SALTS;

KILLED CONTROLS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; DNA 16S; HYDROGEN; IRON; LAKE WATER; NITRATE; NITRITE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SULFIDE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARSENITE; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; LAKE WATER; OXIDATION;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ECTOTHIORHODOSPIRA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IRON CHELATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARSENITES; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; FRESH WATER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ECTOTHIORHODOSPIRA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0036794790     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.10.4795-4802.2002     Document Type: Article

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