Structural and Spatial Associations between Fe , O , and C in Network Structure of 1 Leptothrix ochracea Sheath
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Structural and Spatial Associations between Fe, O, and C in Network Structure of 1 Leptothrix ochracea Sheath Surface 2 Running title: Fe, O, and C Associations in L. ochracea Sheath 3 4 Tomoko Suzuki, Hideki Hashimoto, Hiromichi Ishihara, Tomonari Kasai, Hitoshi 5 Kunoh, and Jun Takada 6 Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and 7 Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan 8 9 Corresponding author 10 Present address: Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural 11 Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, 12 Okayama 700-8530, Japan 13 Phone: +81-86-251-8106 Fax: +81-86-251-8087 14 E-mail address: [email protected] 15 16 17 18 19 Copyright © 2011, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/AEM.06003-11 AEM Accepts, published online ahead of print on 16 September 2011
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Structural and spatial associations between Fe, O, and C in the network structure of the Leptothrix ochracea sheath surface.
The structural and spatial associations of Fe with O and C in the outer coat fibers of the Leptothrix ochracea sheath were shown to be substantially similar to the stalk fibers of Gallionella ferruginea, i.e., a central C core, probably of bacterial origin, and aquatic Fe interacting with O at the surface of the core.
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