Effect of salinity on hydroxylamine oxidation in a marine ammonia-oxidizing gammaproteobacterium, Nitrosococcus oceani strain NS58: Molecular and catalytic properties of tetraheme cytochrome c-554

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-102

  Hozuki, Takeshi ^a   Ohtsuka, Tomonori ^a   Arai, Kentaro ^a   Yoshimatsu, Katsuhiko ^a   Tanaka, Shigeyasu ^a   Fujiwara, Taketomo ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase; Marine ammonia oxidizing gammaproteobacteria; Nitrosococcus oceani; Salt tolerance; Tetraheme cytochrome c 554

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME C-552; CYTOCHROME C552; HEME; HYDROXYLAMINE OXIDASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIACEAE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SALT TOLERANCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYSIS; CHROMATIACEAE; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HEME; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALT-TOLERANCE; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSOCOCCUS OCEANI; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA;

EID: 77954552129     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13426311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME09154     Document Type: Article

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