Structure and sequence conservation of hao cluster genes of autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria: Evidence for their evolutionary history

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 5371-5382

  Bergmann, David J ^a   Hooper, Alan B ^b   Klotz, Martin G ^c  

^a BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIOLOGY; ENZYME KINETICS; GENE TRANSFER; OXIDATION; PROTEINS;

AUTOTROPHIC AMMONIA-OXIDIZING BACTERIUM (AAOB); CYTOCHROMES; GENE CLUSTERS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA;

GENES;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C; HEME; HYDROXYLAMINE; HYDROXYLAMINE OXIDASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN NAPC NIRT; PROTEIN NRFH B; TETRATHIONATE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CODON USAGE; DENITRIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NITROSOCOCCUS OCEANI; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOSPIRA; NITROSOSPIRA MULTIFORMIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORF2 GENE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHROMATIACEAE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOCOCCUS OCEANI; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOSPIRA MULTIFORMIS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 25144469781     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.9.5371-5382.2005     Document Type: Article

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