Syntrophic growth with direct interspecies electron transfer as the primary mechanism for energy exchange

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 904-910

  Shrestha, Pravin Malla ^a   Rotaru, Amelia Elena ^a   Aklujkar, Muktak ^a   Liu, Fanghua ^a,b   Shrestha, Minita ^a   Summers, Zarath M ^a,c   Malvankar, Nikhil ^a   Flores, Dan Carlo ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL; CITRATE SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; FUMARIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GEOBACTER; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ACETATES; ANAEROBIOSIS; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ETHANOL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASES; FUMARATES; GEOBACTER; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 84887782469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12093     Document Type: Article

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