书目名称 | Microbial Metal Respiration |
副标题 | From Geochemistry to |
编辑 | Johannes Gescher,Andreas Kappler |
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概述 | This book is a timely and comprehensive interdisciplinary review of our current understanding of respiratory metal reduction.Elucidates the different principles that have to be regarded to fully under |
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描述 | .Microbes can respire on metals. This seemingly simple finding is one of the major discoveries that were made in the field of microbiology in the last few decades. The importance of this observation is evident. Metals are highly abundant on our planet. Iron is even the most abundant element on Earth and the forth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. Hence, in some environments iron, but also other metals or metalloids, are the dominant respiratory electron acceptors. Their reduction massively drives the carbon cycle in these environments and establishes redox cycles of the metallic electron acceptors themselves. These redox cycles are not only a driving force for other biotic reactions but are furthermore necessary for initiating a number of geochemically relevant abiotic redox conversions. Although widespread and ecologically influential, electron transfer onto metals like ferric iron or manganese is biochemically challenging. The challenge is to transfer respiratory electrons onto metals that occur in nature at neutral pH in the form of metal oxides or oxihydroxides that are effectively insoluble. Obviously, it is necessary that the microbes specially adapt in order to cat |
出版日期 | Book 2012 |
关键词 | Geobacter; Shewanella; biogeochemistry; dissimilatory metal reduction; extracellular electron transfer |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32867-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-44138-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-32867-1 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 |