Revision of N2O-producing pathways in the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea ATCC 19718

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 4930-4935

  Kozlowski, Jessica A ^a   Price, Jennifer ^a,b   Stein, Lisa Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; REDUCTION;

AMMONIA OXIDIZERS; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; MEASUREMENTS OF; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; SUBSTRATE OXIDATION;

SUBSTRATES;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITRIC-OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES;

EID: 84904865498     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01061-14     Document Type: Article

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