Arsenic and selenium in microbial metabolism

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2006, Pages 107-130

  Stolz, John F ^a   Basu, Partha ^a   Santini, Joanne M ^b   Oremland, Ronald S ^c  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenate reductase; Arsenite oxidase; Biogeochemical cycles; Organoarsenicals; Selenate respiration; Selenocysteine

Indexed keywords

ARSENATE REDUCTASE; ARSENIC; ARSENITE OXIDASE; ENZYME; METHYLTRANSFERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SELENATE REDUCTASE; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCALIGENES; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; AQUIFICALES; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; DETOXIFICATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENOMICS; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHYLATION; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NANOPARTICLE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; SCOPULARIOPSIS BREVICAULIS; SHEWANELLA; THIOBACILLUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARSENATE REDUCTASES; ARSENIC; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE; ECOLOGY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33747353951     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.60.080805.142053     Document Type: Review

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