Nitrate reduction to ammonia by enteric bacteria: Redundancy, or a strategy for survival during oxygen starvation?

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-11

  Cole, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaerobic regulation; Cytochrome c synthesis; Enteric bacteria; Nitrate reductase; Nitrite reductase; Periplasmic nitrate reductase

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CYTOCHROME C; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ADAPTATION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; BACTERIAL GENE; CYTOPLASM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTERIC BACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030019826     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00480-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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