Differential expression of two bc1 complexes in the strict acidophilic chemolithoautotrophic bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans suggests a model for their respective roles in iron or sulfur oxidation

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 102-110

  Bruscella, Patrice ^a,d   Appia Ayme, Corinne ^a   Levicán, Gloria ^b   Ratouchniak, Jeanine ^a   Jedlicki, Eugenia ^b   Holmes, David S ^c   Bonnefoy, Violaine ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C1; FERRIC ION; FORMIC ACID; IRON; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; PRIMER RNA; SULFUR; UBIQUINOL CYTOCHROME C REDUCTASE;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX III; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFUR;

EID: 33846326537     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/000067-0     Document Type: Article

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