Preferential reduction of the thermodynamically less favorable electron acceptor, sulfate, by a nitrate-reducing strain of the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans 27774

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 882-889

  Marietou, Angeliki ^a   Griffiths, Lesley ^a   Cole, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; SULFATE; SULFIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS; CODON; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; ELECTRON; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INHIBITION KINETICS; NITRATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMODYNAMICS; BINDING SITE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; NITRATES; NITRITES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFATES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 63449132702     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01171-08     Document Type: Article

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