Direct exchange of electrons within aggregates of an evolved syntrophic coculture of anaerobic bacteria

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6009, 2010, Pages 1413-1415

  Summers, Zarath M ^a   Fogarty, Heather E ^a   Leang, Ching ^a   Franks, Ashley E ^a   Malvankar, Nikhil S ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYTOCHROME C; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; CYTOCHROME; ELECTRON; ETHANOL; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUTATION; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; COCULTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE MUTATION; GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; ETHANOL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GEOBACTER; HYDROGEN; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 78649707496     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1196526     Document Type: Article

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