Selenate-dependent anaerobic arsenite oxidation by a bacterium from Mono Lake, California

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2588-2594

  Fisher, Jenny C ^a   Hollibaugh, James T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Marine Sciences Bldg ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; LAKES; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; RNA; YEAST;

ANAEROBIC ARSENITE OXIDATION; ARSENATE; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR;

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS;

ARSENATE REDUCTASE; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; LACTIC ACID; LAKE WATER; NITRATE; OXYGEN; SELENATE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ARSENITE; BACTERIUM; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LAKE WATER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; SELENATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBON SOURCE; CATALYSIS; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARSENATE REDUCTASES; ARSENATES; ARSENITES; BACILLUS; BASE COMPOSITION; CALIFORNIA; CARBON; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FRESH WATER; LACTIC ACID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CALIFORNIA; MONO LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 43049115300     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01995-07     Document Type: Article

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