Denitrification in Soil and Sediment pp 21-35 | Cite as
Distribution and Diversity of Dissimilatory NO2− Reductases in Denitrifying Bacteria
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Abstract
Denitrification is the biological reduction of nitrogenous oxides to gaseous products during anaerobic bacterial growth. Some organisms, Thiosphaera pantotropha in particular, appear to denitrify in aerobic conditions (Robertson and Kuenen, 1984). However, denitrification can usually be delimited by these criterion (Tiedje, 1988):
- (1)
It is sensitive to oxygen inhibition;
- (2)
Growth yield will be proportional to the amount of nitrogenous oxide present;
- (3)
Eighty percent or more of the available NO 3 − or NO 2 − will accumulate as N2O or N2;
- (4)
NO 3 − or NO 2 − will be rapidly dissimilated without NH 4 + accumulation;
- (5)
A dissimilatory NO 2 − reductase (dNir) will be present.
Keywords
Nitrite Reductase Western Immunoblot Alcaligenes Faecalis Denitrify Bacterium Cytochrome Oxidase Activity
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