Expansion of ability of denitrification within the filamentous colorless sulfur bacteria of the genus Thiothrix

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 358, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 72-80

  Trubitsyn, Ivan V ^a   Belousova, Elena V ^a   Tutukina, Maria N ^b   Merkel, Alexander Y ^c   Dubinina, Galina A ^c   Grabovich, Margarita Y ^a  

^a VORONEZH STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c WINOGRADSKY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Adaptation; cnorB; Denitrification; Dissimilatory nitrate and nitrite reduction; nirS; Thiothrix

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CYTOCHROME C; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SULFUR;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CNORB GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NARG GENE; NIRK GENE; NIRS GENE; NONHUMAN; NRFA GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNORB GENE; THIOTHRIX; THIOTHRIX CALDIFONTIS; THIOTHRIX LACUSTRIS; THIOTHRIX UNZII; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENITRIFICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; THIOTHRIX;

EID: 84908252296     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12548     Document Type: Article

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