A heme-C-containing enzyme complex that exhibits nitrate and nitrite reductase activity from the dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium Geobacter metallireducens

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 172, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 313-320

  Martínez Murillo, Francisco ^a,b   Gugliuzza, Theresa ^a   Senko, John ^a   Basu, Partha ^a   Stolz, John F ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c; Geobacter metallireducens; Nitrate reduction; Nitrite reduction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HEMOPROTEIN; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; TUNGSTEN;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DENATURATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HEME; IRON; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS;

EID: 0032727143     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050785     Document Type: Article

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