Life in an arsenic-containing gold mine: Genome and physiology of the autotrophic arsenite-oxidizing bacterium Rhizobium sp. NT-26

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 934-953

  Andres, Jérémy ^a   Arsène Ploetze, Florence ^a   Barbe, Valérie ^b   Brochier Armanet, Céline ^c   Cleiss Arnold, Jessica ^a   Coppée, Jean Yves ^d   Dillies, Marie Agnès ^d   Geist, Lucie ^a   Joublin, Aurélie ^a   Koechler, Sandrine ^a   Lassalle, Florent ^c,e   Marchal, Marie ^a   Médigue, Claudine ^b   Muller, Daniel ^c   Nesme, Xavier ^c   Plewniak, Frédéric ^a   Proux, Caroline ^d   Ramírez Bahena, Martha Helena ^c,f   Schenowitz, Chantal ^b   Sismeiro, Odile ^d   Vallenet, David ^b   Santini, Joanne M ^e   Bertin, Philippe N ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arsenic metabolism; Motility biofilm; Phylogeny; Rhizobium Agrobacterium; Rhizosphere; Transcriptomics proteomics

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; GOLD;

AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS; ARSENIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; MOTILITY/BIOFILM; RHIZOBIUM/AGROBACTERIUM; RHIZOSPHERE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS/PROTEOMICS;

ARSENITES; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GOLD; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

ARSENIC METABOLISM; MOTILITY/BIOFILM; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIUM/AGROBACTERIUM; RHIZOSPHERE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS/PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84886297012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt061     Document Type: Article

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