Preface

Contributors

Anaerobes in the Recycling of Elements in the Biosphere

Howard Gest

The Diversity of Energy Sources of Microorganisms

Hans Gunter Schlegel

Mechanism of Hydrogen Activation

Simon P.J. Albracht

Reductive Activation of Aerobically Purified Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hydrogenase: Mossbauer Characterization of the Catalytic H Cluster

Boi Hanh Huynh

Pedro Tavares

Alice S. Pereira

Isabel Moura

Jose J.G. Moura

Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biosynthesis

Jeffrey N. Agar

Dennis R. Dean

Michael K. Johnson

Genes and Proteins Involved in Nickel-Dependent Hydrogenase Expression

R.J. Maier

J. Olson

N. Mehta

Genes and Genetic Manipulations of Desulfovibrio

Judy D. Wall

Christopher L. Hemme

Barbara Rapp-Giles

Joseph A. Ringbauer, Jr.

Laurence Casalot

Tara Giblin

Function and Assembly of Electron-Transport Complexes in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough

Gerrit Voordouw

Iron-Sulfur Proteins in Anaerobic Eukaryotes

Richard Cammack

David S. Horner

Mark van der Giezen

Jaroslav Kulda

David Lloyd

Oxygen and Anaerobes

Donald M. Kurtz, Jr.

One-Carbon Metabolism in Methanogenic Anaerobes

James G. Ferry

Selenium-Dependent Enzymes from Clostridia

William T. Self

How the Diverse Physiologic Potentials of Acetogens Determine Their In Situ Realities

Harold L. Drake

Kirsten Kusel

Electron-Transport System in Acetogens

Amaresh Das

Lars G. Ljungdahl

Microbial Inorganic Sulfur Oxidation: The APS Pathway

Donovan P. Kelly

Reduction of Metals and Nonessential Elements by Anaerobes

Larry L. Barton

Richard M. Plunkett

Bruce M. Thomson

Chemolithoautotrophic Thermophilic Iron(III)-Reducer

Juergen Wiegel

Justin Hanel

Kaya Aygen

Electron Flow in Ferrous Biocorrosion

E.J. Laishley

R.D. Bryant

Index