Article
A sulphite respiration system in the chemoheterotrophic human pathogen Campylobacter jejuni.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Jan 2005
Myers Jonathan D, Kelly David J
Abstract excerpt
The ability to use sulphite as a respiratory electron donor is usually associated with free-living chemolithotrophic sulphur-oxidizing bacteria. However, this paper shows that the chemoheterotrophic human pathogen Campylobacter jejuni has the ability to respire sulphite, with oxygen uptake rates of 23 +/- 8 and 28 +/- 15 nmol O(2) min(-1) (mg cell protein)(-1) after the addition of 0.5 mM sodium sulphite or...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
