Atmospheric N deposition increases bacterial laccase-like multicopper oxidases: Implications for organic matter decay

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 4460-4468

  Freedman, Zachary ^a   Zak, Donald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENZYMES; FORESTRY; FUNGI; GENES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS;

COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MULTICOPPER OXIDASE; NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST; PLAUSIBLE MECHANISMS; REDUCED DECOMPOSITIONS; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

DEPOSITION;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BACTERIUM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREST FLOOR; FUNGUS; NITROGEN; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

BACTERIA; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENZYMES; FORESTRY; FUNGI; GENES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOIL;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; LACCASE; NITROGEN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ATMOSPHERE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; FOREST; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; MICHIGAN; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; DNA, BACTERIAL; FORESTS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LACCASE; MICHIGAN; NITROGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84903163893     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01224-14     Document Type: Article

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