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Abstract

The halotolerant acidophile ‘’ was shown to require chloride for growth. With ferrous iron as substrate, growth occurred at a rate similar to that of the well-studied acidophile . Previously, the salt (NaCl) requirement of ‘’ was not clear and its growth on ferrous iron was described as poor. A subtractive hybridization of cDNAs from ferrous-iron-grown and sulfur-grown ‘’ strain V6 led to identification of a cluster of genes similar to the operon reported to encode ferrous iron oxidation in . However, the ‘’ gene cluster did not contain a homologue of , which is thought to encode a key cytochrome in the pathway of electron transport from ferrous iron in . Rusticyanin, another key protein in ferrous iron oxidation by , was present in ‘’ at similar concentrations in cells grown on either ferrous iron or sulfur.

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