Expression of genes for sulfur oxidation in the intracellular chemoautotrophic symbiont of the deep-sea bivalve calyptogena okutanii

Extremophiles

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 895-903

  Harada, Maiko ^a,b   Yoshida, Takao ^a   Kuwahara, Hirokazu ^a   Shimamura, Shigeru ^a   Takaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Kato, Chiaki ^a   Miwa, Tetsuya ^a   Miyake, Hiroshi ^c   Maruyama, Tadashi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemosynthesis; Intracellular symbiont; Sulfur metabolism; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; HYDROGEN SULFITE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); SULFATE; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; SULFIDE QUINONE REDUCTASE; SULFUR; THIOL OXIDASE; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIVALVE; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GILL; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRESSURE; SYMBIOSIS;

AEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIVALVIA; CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC GROWTH; ENZYME INDUCTION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GILLS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; HYDROGENSULFITE REDUCTASE; MARINE BIOLOGY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PRESSURE; QUINONE REDUCTASES; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; SULFATES; SULFUR; SYMBIOSIS; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE;

BIVALVIA; CALYPTOGENA; CALYPTOGENA MAGNIFICA; CALYPTOGENA OKUTANII;

EID: 70350650481     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-009-0277-8     Document Type: Article

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