Formation of tellurium nanocrystals during anaerobic growth of bacteria that use Te oxyanions as respiratory electron acceptors

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2135-2143

  Baesman, Shaun M ^a   Bullen, Thomas D ^a   Dewald, James ^b   Zhang, Donghui ^b   Curran, Seamus ^b   Islam, Farhana S ^c   Beveridge, Terry J ^c   Oremland, Ronald S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; NANOARCHITECTURES; OXYANIONS; RESPIRATORY ELECTRON ACCEPTORS;

BACTERIA; CELL GROWTH; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FRACTIONATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SELENIUM; TELLURIUM; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

NANOCRYSTALS;

ANION; MINERAL; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOMATERIAL; NANOROD; NANOSPHERE; OXYGEN; TELLURIC ACID; TELLURITE; TELLURIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON; GROWTH; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; METABOLISM; REDUCTION; RESPIRATION; TELLURIUM;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SELENITIREDUCES; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FRACTIONATION; NONHUMAN; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SULFUROSPIRILLUM BARNESII; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACILLUS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOPARTICLES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TELLURIUM;

BACILLUS SELENITIREDUCENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34247477609     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02558-06     Document Type: Article

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