Expanded metabolic versatility of ubiquitous nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the genus Nitrospira

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 11371-11376

  Koch, Hanna ^a   Lücker, Sebastian ^a,d   Albertsen, Mads ^b   Kitzinger, Katharina ^a   Herbold, Craig ^a   Spieck, Eva ^c   Nielsen, Per Halkjaer ^b   Wagner, Michael ^a   Daims, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Formate; Genome; Nitrification; Nitrospira; Urease

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; FORMIC ACID; FRESH WATER; NITRATE; OXYGEN; UREA; UREASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITRITE; SEWAGE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FEEDING; GENETIC CODE; HABITAT; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROSPIRA; NITROSPIRA DEFLUVII; NITROSPIRA LENTA; NITROSPIRA MOSCOVIENSIS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEWAGE;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ECOSYSTEM; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASES; FORMATES; FRESH WATER; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; UREA; UREASE;

EID: 84941249187     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1506533112     Document Type: Article

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