Abstract
In chemotrophic and phototrophic sulfur oxidizers that do not form sulfur deposits a periplasmic thiosulfate-oxidizing multienzyme complex (Sox complex) has been described to be responsible for formation of sulfate from thiosulfate. In the anoxygenic phototrophic sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum intracellular sulfur globules are an obligate intermediate during the oxidation of thiosulfate to sulfate. Despite this fundamental difference A. vinosum possesses five sox genes in two independent loci (soxBXA and soxYZ) encoding proteins related to components of the Sox complex from Paracoccus pantotrophus.
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Grimm, F., Franz, B., & Dahl, C. (2008). Thiosulfate and Sulfur Oxidation in Purple Sulfur Bacteria. In Microbial Sulfur Metabolism (pp. 101–116). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72682-1_9
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