Hydroxylamine oxidation in heterotrophic nitrate-reducing soil bacteria and purification of a hydroxylamine-cytochrome c oxidoreductase from a Pseudomonas species

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 421-424

  Wehrfritz, Josa Marie ^a,b   Carter, Jon P ^a,b   Spiro, Stephen ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ammonia monooxygenase; denitrification; hydroxylamine cytochrome c oxidoreductase; nitrification; Pseudomonas sp.

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS;

AEROMONAS; ARTHROBACTER; ARTHROBACTER SP.; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

EID: 0030459211     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01682991     Document Type: Article

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