Magnetite compensates for the lack of a pilin-associated c-type cytochrome in extracellular electron exchange

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 648-655

  Liu, Fanghua ^a,b   Rotaru, Amelia Elena ^a,c   Shrestha, Pravin M ^a,d   Malvankar, Nikhil S ^a   Nevin, Kelly P ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOBACTER SP.; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

CYTOCHROME C; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; HEME; MAGNETITE; OXIDE;

ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GEOBACTER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CYTOCHROME C GROUP; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GEOBACTER; HEME; OXIDES;

EID: 84924965830     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12485     Document Type: Article

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