Genes involved in hydrogen and sulfur metabolism in phototrophic sulfur bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 317-324

  Dahl, Christiane ^a   Rákhely, Gábor ^b   Pott Sperling, A S ^a   Fodor, Barna ^b   Takács, Mária ^b   Tóth, András ^b   Kraeling, Monika ^a   Gyorfi, Krisztina ^c   Kovács, Ákos ^b   Tusz, Jennifer ^b   Kovács, Kornél L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^c Institute for Biotechnology Szeged   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Allochromatium vinosum; Heterodisulfide reductase; Heterologous hybridization; Hydrogenase; Purple sulfur bacterium; Sulfite reductase; Sulfur oxidation; Thiocapsa roseopersicina

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; SULFITE REDUCTASE; SULFUR;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMATIUM; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFUR BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHLOROBI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PHYLOGENY; SULFUR;

ALLOCHROMATIUM; ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBI; MARICHROMATIUM; PHOTOBACTERIA; THIOCAPSA; THIOCAPSA ROSEOPERSICINA; THIOCYSTIS;

EID: 0344117773     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00500-5     Document Type: Article

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