Complete genome sequence of Nitrosospira multiformis, an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium from the soil environment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3559-3572

  Norton, Jeanette M ^a   Klotz, Martin G ^b   Stein, Lisa Y ^c   Arp, Daniel J ^d   Bottomley, Peter J ^d   Chain, Patrick S G ^e,f,g   Hauser, Loren J ^h   Land, Miriam L ^h   Larimer, Frank W ^h   Shin, Maria W ^e,f   Starkenburg, Shawn R ^d  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g Michigan State University   (United States)

^h OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOME SEQUENCING; SOIL ENVIRONMENTS;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; CYANOPHYCIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOGEN; HYDROGENASE; IRON; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; OXYGENASE; POLYPHOSPHATE; PORIN; PYOVERDINE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SIDEROPHORE; UREASE;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; CHROMOSOME; DATABASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HOMOLOGY; IRON; PLASMID; PROTEIN; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SUBSTRATE; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPH; CHROMOSOME; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS EUTROPHA; NITROSOSPIRA; NITROSOSPIRA MULTIFORMIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OUTER MEMBRANE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROSOMONADACEAE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS EUTROPHA; NITROSOSPIRA MULTIFORMIS;

EID: 44949239735     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02722-07     Document Type: Article

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