Salt Stress-Induced Loss of Iron Oxidoreduction Activities and Reacquisition of That Phenotype Depend on rus Operon Transcription in Acidithiobacillus ferridurans

The type strain of the mineral-oxidizing acidophilic bacterium was grown in liquid medium containing elevated concentrations of sodium chloride with hydrogen as electron donor. While it became more tolerant to chloride, after about 1 year, the salt-stressed acidophile was found to have lost its abil...

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