Enhanced heme protein expression by ammonia-oxidizing communities acclimated to low dissolved oxygen conditions

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 97, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 10211-10221

  Arnaldos, Marina ^a   Kunkel, Stephanie A ^a   Stark, Benjamin C ^a   Pagilla, Krishna R ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Acclimation; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Bacterial hemoglobin protein; Dissolved oxygen; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; ACCLIMATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL HEMOGLOBIN; FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; SPECIFIC OXYGEN UPTAKE RATE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BACTERIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTEINS; RNA;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENZYME; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOPROTEIN; OXYGEN; RNA 16S;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DOMINANCE; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; RNA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEON; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LABORATORY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOREACTORS; HEMEPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; SEWAGE;

EID: 84888200473     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4755-7     Document Type: Article

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