Clarifying the regulation of NO/N2O production in Nitrosomonas europaea during anoxic-oxic transition via flux balance analysis of a metabolic network model

Water Research

Volumn 60, Issue , 2014, Pages 267-277

  Perez Garcia, Octavio ^a   Villas Boas, Silas G ^b   Swift, Simon ^a   Chandran, Kartik ^c   Singhal, Naresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Flux balance analysis; Metabolic network modelling; Nitrifier denitrification; Nitrosomonas europaea metabolism; Nitrous oxide production

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; METABOLITES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; REACTION RATES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; FLUX BALANCE ANALYSIS; METABOLIC NETWORK MODELLING; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROUS OXIDE PRODUCTION;

METABOLISM;

CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME P460; NITROGEN OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NITRIC OXIDE;

AMMONIA; CATALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYTOCHROME; ESTIMATION METHOD; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; REACTION KINETICS; SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENERGY YIELD; METABOLIC REGULATION; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; DENITRIFICATION; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 84901194885     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.04.049     Document Type: Article

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