Effects of nitrite on ammonia-oxidizing activity and gene regulation in three ammonia-oxidizing bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 319, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-175

  Cua, Lynnie S ^a   Stein, Lisa Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidation; Gene expression; Nitrite; Nitrosomonas; Nitrosospira

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME C'; CYTOCHROME C' BETA; CYTOCHROME P460; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; SODIUM NITRATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

AMMONIA OXIDATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AMOA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTL GENE; CYTS GENE; GENE CONTROL; INCUBATION TIME; NIRK GENE; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS EUTROPHA; NITROSOSPIRA; NITROSOSPIRA MULTIFORMIS; NONHUMAN; NORB GENE; NORS GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTES BY METABOLISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITES; NITROSOMONAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA ATCC 19718; NITROSOMONAS EUTROPHA; NITROSOSPIRA; NITROSOSPIRA MULTIFORMIS; NITROSOSPIRA MULTIFORMIS ATCC 25196;

EID: 79956065277     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02277.x     Document Type: Article

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