Expression of a putative nitrite reductase and the reversible inhibition of nitrite-dependent respiration by nitric oxide in Nitrobacter winogradskyi Nb-255

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3036-3042

  Starkenburg, Shawn R ^a   Arp, Daniel J ^a   Bottomley, Peter J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMETABOLITE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; OXYGEN; PYRUVIC ACID;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; NITROBACTER; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANTIMETABOLITES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; NITROBACTER; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PYRUVIC ACID;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROBACTER; NITROBACTER WINOGRADSKYI; NITROBACTER WINOGRADSKYI NB-255;

EID: 52949130583     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01763.x     Document Type: Article

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