Microorganisms pumping iron: Anaerobic microbial iron oxidation and reduction

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 752-764

  Weber, Karrie A ^a   Achenbach, Laurie A ^b   Coates, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CYTOCHROME C; FERRIC ION; FERROUS ION; IRON; IRON DERIVATIVE; NITRATE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ASTRONOMY; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UBIQUITINATION;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; ECOSYSTEM; IRON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 33748853295     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1490     Document Type: Review

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