Prokaryotic sulfur oxidation

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 253-259

  Friedrich, Cornelius G ^a   Bardischewsky, Frank ^a   Rother, Dagmar ^a   Quentmeier, Armin ^a   Fischer, Jörg ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SULFUR;

ACIDIANUS AMBIVALENS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW;

ACIDIANUS; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SULFUR;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROBIACEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 20444496515     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2005.04.005     Document Type: Review

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