Isolation and immunocytochemical location of the nitrite-oxidizing system in Nitrospira moscoviensis

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 225-230

  Spieck, Eva ^a   Ehrich, Silke ^a   Aamand, Jens ^b   Bock, Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hexagonal pattern; Membrane associated enzyme; Monoclonal antibodies; Nitrite oxidizing system; Nitrospira moscoviensis; Periplasmic space; Post embedding labeling

Indexed keywords

MOLYBDENUM; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NITROBACTER; NITROSPIRA MOSCOVIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031951770     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050565     Document Type: Article

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