The production of nitric oxide by marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea and inhibition of archaeal ammonia oxidation by a nitric oxide scavenger

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2261-2274

  Martens Habbena, Willm ^a   Qin, Wei ^a   Horak, Rachel E A ^b   Urakawa, Hidetoshi ^d   Schauer, Andrew J ^c   Moffett, James W ^e   Armbrust, E Virginia ^b   Ingalls, Anitra E ^b   Devol, Allan H ^b   Stahl, David A ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS; NITROSOMONADALES;

2-PHENYL-4,4,5,5-TETRAMETHYLIMIDAZOLINE-1-OXYL-3-OXIDE; ALLYLTHIOUREA; AMINE OXIDE; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; THIOUREA;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARCHAEON; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOSYNTHESIS; DENITRIFICATION; METABOLISM; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ARCHAEA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYCLIC N-OXIDES; DENITRIFICATION; IMIDAZOLES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; THIOUREA;

EID: 84937072872     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12677     Document Type: Article

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