STABILITY OF COPPER TOLERANCE IN THIOBACILLUS-FERROOXIDANS

被引:25
作者
NATARAJAN, KA [1 ]
SUDEESHA, K [1 ]
RAO, GR [1 ]
机构
[1] INDIAN INST SCI,DEPT MICROBIOL & CELL BIOL,BANGALORE 560012,KARNATAKA,INDIA
来源
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY | 1994年 / 66卷 / 04期
关键词
BIOLEACHING; COPPER TOLERANCE; ADAPTATION; THIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS;
D O I
10.1007/BF00882764
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
A strain of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans MAL-4-1 was adapted to grow at higher concentrations of copper by repeated subculturing in the presence of increasing levels of added cupric ions in 9K medium. The strains adapted to copper were found to be more efficient in bioleaching of copper from concentrates. When copper tolerant strains were back cultured repeatedly in 9K medium without cupric ions, the initially developed metal tolerance was observed to be lost. This indicates that the copper tolerance developed is stress-dependent and not a permanent trait of the adapted strain.
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