A genomic region required for phototrophic thiosulfate oxidation in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum (syn. Chlorobaculum tepidum)

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 818-829

  Chan, Leong Keat ^a   Weber, Timothy S ^a   Morgan Kiss, Rachael M ^a   Hanson, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 OXOACYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN SYNTHASE; ACETIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN QMO; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; THIOSULFATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHLOROBI; CHLOROBIUM TEPIDUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLOROBIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM;

ACETIC ACID; ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLOROBIUM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENZYMES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SULFIDES; SULFUR; THIOSULFATES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 42949178168     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/012583-0     Document Type: Article

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