Novel denitrifying bacterium Ochrobactrum anthropi YD50.2 tolerates high levels of reactive nitrogen oxides

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 5186-5194

  Doi, Yuki ^a   Takaya, Naoki ^a   Takizawa, Noboru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC CONDITION; ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; DENITRIFIERS; DENITRIFYING BACTERIA; DINITROGEN; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; GENE CLUSTERS; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RALSTONIA EUTROPHA; REACTIVE NITROGEN; TOLERANCE MECHANISMS;

BACTERIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; STRAIN;

DENITRIFICATION;

NITRATE; NITRITE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIC CONDITIONS; TAXONOMY; TOLERANCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; DENITRIFICATION; DENITRIFYING BACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; OPERON; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PURIFICATION;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITROGEN OXIDES; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 68549140162     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00604-09     Document Type: Article

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