Enzymology and bioenergetics of respiratory nitrite ammonification

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 285-309

  Simon, Jörg ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c biogenesis; Cytochrome c nitrite reductase; Formate dehydrogenase; Hydrogenase; NapC NirT family; NrfA; Respiratory nitrite ammonification; Wolinella succinogenes

Indexed keywords

1,4 BENZOQUINONE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME C; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; FORMIC ACID; GENE PRODUCT; HEME; HISTIDINE; HYDROGENASE; IRON; LIGAND; LIPOSOME; LYSINE; NITRITE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN NRFA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOCHROME A1; CYTOCHROME C1; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASE (CYTOCHROME);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIFICATION; BIOENERGY; BIOGENESIS; COVALENT BOND; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEOBACTERIA; WOLINELLA;

BACTERIA; CYTOCHROME C; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; PROTEOBACTERIA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; WOLINELLA; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; CYTOCHROMES A1; CYTOCHROMES C1;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; WOLINELLA; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

EID: 0036024581     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(02)00111-0     Document Type: Review

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