Detection and widespread distribution of the nrfA gene encoding nitrite reduction to ammonia, a short circuit in the biological nitrogen cycle that competes with denitrification

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 433-443

  Mohan, Sudesh B ^a   Schmid, Markus ^b   Jetten, Mike ^c   Cole, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c nitrite reductase; Environmental genomics; Gene detection by PCR; Gene probes; nrfA

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOCHROME C; DNA FRAGMENT; ENZYME NRFA; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATASE; RESPONSE REGULATOR ASPARTATE PHOSPHATASE; SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DENITRIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CLONE; DENITRIFICATION; DNA ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NITROGEN CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OXIDATION KINETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; REDUCTION KINETICS; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; CYTOCHROMES A1; CYTOCHROMES C1; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTEROIDETES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; PLANCTOMYCETALES; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOPIRELLULA BALTICA; SULFUROSPIRILLUM; SULFUROSPIRILLUM DELEYIANUM; WOLINELLA; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

EID: 4344629438     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsec.2004.04.012     Document Type: Article

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