Adaptation to disruption of the electron transfer pathway for Fe(III) reduction in Geobacter sulfurreducens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 5918-5926

  Leang, Ching ^a   Adams, L A ^a   Chin, K J ^a   Nevin, K P ^a   Methe B A ^b   Webster, J ^b   Sharma, M L ^a   Lovley, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME C; FERRIC CITRATE; FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; OMCB PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; STEADY STATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GEOBACTER; KINETICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 24344443251     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.17.5918-5926.2005     Document Type: Article

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