Arsenite oxidation by a chemoautotrophic moderately acidophilic Thiomonas sp.: From the strain isolation to the gene study

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 228-237

  Duquesne, Katia ^a   Lieutaud, Aurélie ^b   Ratouchniak, Jeanine ^b   Muller, Daniel ^c,d   Lett, Marie Claire ^c   Bonnefoy, Violaine ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARSENITE OXIDASE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; CHEMISTRY; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARSENITES; BASE SEQUENCE; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THIOMONAS;

EID: 38149093947     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01447.x     Document Type: Article

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