Investigation of elemental sulfur speciation transformation mediated by acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans

Current Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 300-307

  He, Huan ^a   Zhang, Cheng Gui ^a   Xia, Jin Lan ^a   Peng, An An ^a   Yang, Yi ^a   Jiang, Hong Chen ^b   Zheng, Lei ^c   Ma, Chen Yan ^c   Zhao, Yi Dong ^c   Nie, Zhen Yuan ^a   Qiu, Guan Zhou ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; SULFIDE; SULFUR; THIOL; POLYSULFIDE;

ABSORPTION; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LEACHING; NONHUMAN; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CULTURE MEDIA; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SULFIDES; SULFUR;

EID: 65549147772     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-008-9330-6     Document Type: Article

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