Denitrification by yeasts and occurrence of cytochrome P450nor in Trichosporon cutaneum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 105-110

  Tsuruta, Sayuri ^a   Takaya, Naoki ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Shoun, Hirofumi ^a   Kimura, Kenji ^b   Hamamoto, Makiko ^c   Nakase, Takashi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Water Quality Center   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytochrome P450nor; Denitrification; Nitric oxide reductase; Trichosporon cutaneum; Yeast denitrifier

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHOSPORON CUTANEUM; YEAST;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ENZYME INDUCTION; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRICHOSPORON; YEASTS;

EID: 0032212990     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00427-3     Document Type: Article

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