Quantification of Desulfovibrio vulgaris dissimilatory sulfite reductase gene expression during electron donor- and electron acceptor-limited growth

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5850-5853

  Villanueva, Laura ^a,b   Haveman, Shelley A ^a   Summers, Zara M ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOSTATS; ELECTRONS; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; SEDIMENTATION;

DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; ELECTRON DONORS; LIMITING CONDITIONS; METABOLIC STATE; SULFATE-REDUCTION; SULFITE REDUCTASE; TRANSCRIPT LEVELS;

SULFATE MINERALS;

SULFITE REDUCTASE; BACTERIAL RNA; HYDROGEN SULFITE REDUCTASE; MESSENGER RNA; SULFATE;

BACTERIUM; ELECTRON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SULFATE; SULFITE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMOSTAT; COLORIMETRY; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; ELECTRON; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION PAIR CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; STEADY STATE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT;

DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS;

DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGENSULFITE REDUCTASE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SULFATES;

EID: 52649088940     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00399-08     Document Type: Article

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