Assessment of nitric oxide (NO) redox reactions contribution to nitrous oxide (N2O) formation during nitrification using a multispecies metabolic network model

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1124-1136

  Perez Garcia, Octavio ^a   Chandran, Kartik ^b   Villas Boas, Silas G ^c   Singhal, Naresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

AOB; Metabolic modeling; Nitrification; Nitrous oxide emission; NOB; Oxidreductase enzymes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BACTERIA; CATALYSIS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ESTIMATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METABOLISM; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION; REDOX REACTIONS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA AND NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AOB; DISSOLVED OXYGEN LEVELS; METABOLIC MODELING; METABOLIC NETWORK MODELS; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS; NOB; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM;

REDUCTION;

CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 554; CYTOCHROME P460; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLAVOHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN VARIANT; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROUS OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMMONIA;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CATALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTISPECIES METABOLIC NETWORK MODEL; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS;

AMMONIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIFICATION; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 84950156103     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25880     Document Type: Article

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