Nitrogen fixation by the verrucomicrobial methanotroph 'Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum' SolV

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1052-1059

  Khadem, Ahmad F ^a   Pol, Arjan ^a   Jetten, Mike S M ^a   Op Den Camp, Huub J M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; AMMONIA; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMOSTAT; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; METHYLACIDIPHILUM FUMARIOLICUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; METHANE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY;

PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 77950688461     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.036061-0     Document Type: Article

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