Nitrification expanded: Discovery, physiology and genomics of a nitrite-oxidizing bacterium from the phylum Chloroflexi

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2245-2256

  Sorokin, Dimitry Y ^a,b   Lücker, Sebastian ^c   Vejmelkova, Dana ^b,d   Kostrikina, Nadezhda A ^a   Kleerebezem, Robbert ^b   Rijpstra, W Irene C ^e   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^e   Le Paslier, Denis ^f,g,h   Muyzer, Gerard ^b,i   Wagner, Michael ^c   Van Loosdrecht, Mark C M ^b   Daims, Holger ^c  

^a WINOGRADSKY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRITE;

BIOREACTOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSIS; CELL ORGANELLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; LIPID; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOREACTOR; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; CHLOROFLEXI; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEWAGE;

BIOREACTORS; CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC GROWTH; CHLOROFLEXI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; NITRIFICATION; NITRITES; PHYLOGENY; SEWAGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); NITROBACTER; NITROCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84871326069     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.70     Document Type: Article

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