Community analysis of a mercury hot spring supports occurrence of domain-specific forms of mercuric reductase

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 8836-8845

  Simbahan, Jessica ^a   Kurth, Elizabeth ^a   Schelert, James ^a   Dillman, Amanda ^a   Moriyama, Etsuko ^a,b   Jovanovich, Stevan ^c   Blum, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c Silicon Valley Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; BACTERIA; DNA; HOT SPRINGS; MERCURY (METAL); REDOX REACTIONS;

BACTERIAL TAXA; COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRAITS;

ENZYMES;

ANTIOXIDANT; BACTERIAL DNA; ENZYME VARIANT; HEAVY METAL; MERCURY; MERCURY (II) REDUCTASE; MERCURY SULFIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; REDOX POTENTIAL; THERMAL SPRING; TOLERANCE;

ACIDITY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRENARCHAEOTA; DRUG RESISTANCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MERA GENE; MERCURY RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TAXON; THERMAL SPRING; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; HOT SPRINGS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 29144530593     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.8836-8845.2005     Document Type: Article

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