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Phenazines and other redox-active antibiotics promote microbial mineral reduction.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2004
Hernandez Maria E, Kappler Andreas, Newman Dianne K
Abstract excerpt
Natural products with important therapeutic properties are known to be produced by a variety of soil bacteria, yet the ecological function of these compounds is not well understood. Here we show that phenazines and other redox-active antibiotics can promote microbial mineral reduction. Pseudomonas chlororaphis PCL1391, a root isolate that produces phenazine-1-carboxamide (PCN), is able to reductively dissolve...
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