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Many bacteria reduce inorganic sulfate to sulfide to satisfy their need for sulfur, one of the most important elements for biological life. But little is known about the metabolic pathways involving hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in mesophilic bacteria. By genomic sequence analysis, a complete set of genes for the assimilatory sulfate reduction pathway has been identified in the ethanologen Zymomonas mobilis...