Metabolic modeling of denitrification in Agrobacterium tumefaciens: A tool to study inhibiting and activating compounds for the denitrification pathway

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Kampschreur, Marlies J ^a,d   Kleerebezem, Robbert ^a   Picioreanu, Cristian ^a   Bakken, Lars ^b   Bergaust, Linda ^b   de Vries, Simon ^a   Jetten, Mike S M ^a,c   van Loosdrecht, Mark C M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Microbiology Radboud University Nijmegen ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Denitrification; Metabolic model; Nitric oxide; Nitrite reduction; Nitrous oxide; NO reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875851201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00370     Document Type: Article

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