Emerging principles of inorganic nitrogen metabolism in Paracoccus denitrificans and related bacteria

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 33-41

  Stouthamer, A H ^a   De Boer, A P N ^a   Van Der Oost, J ^a   Van Spanning, R J M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemolithotrophy; Denitrification; FNR; Nitrification; Nitrosomonas europaea; Paracoccus denitrificans

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; NITRATE REDUCTASE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

AEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC BACTERIA; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; THIOBACILLUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PARACOCCUS PANTOTROPHUS; THIOCYSTIS;

EID: 0031017493     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000113824961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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