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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2001, p. 3750-3752, Vol. 67, No. 8
Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
Received 9 May 2000/Accepted 31 May 2001
The dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium Geobacter
metallireducens was found to require iron at a concentration in
excess of 50 µM for continuous cultivation on nitrate. Growth yield
(~3-fold), cytochrome c content (~7-fold), and
nitrate (~4.5-fold) and nitrite (~70-fold) reductase activities
were all increased significantly when the growth medium was amended
with 500 µM iron.
0099-2240/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.8.3750-3752.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Evidence for Iron-Dependent Nitrate Respiration in
the Dissimilatory Iron-Reducing Bacterium Geobacter
metallireducens
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Phone: (412) 396-4867. Fax: (412) 396-5907. E-mail: stolz{at}duq.edu.
Present address: Department of Botany and Microbiology, University
of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
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