%0 Journal Article %A KAPRALEK, F. %T The Physiological Role of Tetrathionate Respiration in Growing Citrobacter %D 1972 %J Microbiology, %V 71 %N 1 %P 133-139 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-71-1-133 %I Microbiology Society, %X SUMMARY: The reduction of tetrathionate to thiosulphate by anaerobically growingCitrobacter caused a significant rise in specific growth rate and molar growth yield. It enabled alsoanaerobic growth on non-fermentable carbon sources and resembled therefore the respiratory reduction of nitrate to nitrite. The efficiency of energy production by tetrathionate respiration amounted to only two-thirds that of nitrate respiration. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-71-1-133