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Our laboratory is concerned with water quality and purification with special emphasis on the role of photosynthetic bacteria. Recently, we have isolated a photosynthetic bacterium from polluted water which possesses an active denitrification system (Satoh et al., 1974; Satoh et al., 1976), a finding which has opened the door to the studies of the mechanism of denitrification and its relationship to photosynthesis in this organism.
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Satoh, T., Sawada, E., Bannai, M. (1981). Denitrification by the Photosynthetic Bacterium, Rhodopseudomonas Sphaeroides Forma Sp. Denitrificans: Mechanism of Electron Transport to Nitrate and Nitrite Reduction. In: Lyons, J.M., Valentine, R.C., Phillips, D.A., Rains, D.W., Huffaker, R.C. (eds) Genetic Engineering of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and Conservation of Fixed Nitrogen. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3953-3_37
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