Participation of Nitrite Reductase in Conversion of NO2- to NO3- in a Heterotrophic Nitrifier, Burkholderia cepacia NH-17, with Denitrification Activity

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 203-209

  Matsuzaka, Emiko ^a   Nomura, Nobuhiko ^a   Maseda, Hideaki ^a   Otagaki, Hiroshi ^a   Nakajima Kambe, Toshiaki ^a   Nakahara, Tadaatsu ^a   Uchiyama, Hiroo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

denitrification; heterotrophic nitrification; nitric oxide; nitrite; nitrite reductase

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049094039     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.18.203     Document Type: Article

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