Denitrifying genes in bacterial and archaeal genomes

L Philippot - Biochimica et biophysica acta (BBA)-Gene structure …, 2002 - Elsevier
Denitrification, the reduction of nitrate or nitrite to nitrous oxide or dinitrogen, is the major
mechanism by which fixed nitrogen returns to the atmosphere from soil and water. Although …

Nitrate reduction and the nitrogen cycle in archaea

P Cabello, MD Roldan, C Moreno-Vivian - Microbiology, 2004 - microbiologyresearch.org
The nitrogen cycle (N-cycle) in the biosphere, mainly driven by prokaryotes, involves
different reductive or oxidative reactions used either for assimilatory purposes or in …

The cell membrane plays a crucial role in survival of bacteria and archaea in extreme environments

WN Konings, SV Albers, S Koning… - Antonie Van …, 2002 - Springer
The cytoplasmic membrane of bacteria and archaea determine to a large extent the
composition of the cytoplasm. Since the ion and in particular the proton and/or the sodium …

Thermus thermophilus as biological model

F Cava, A Hidalgo, J Berenguer - Extremophiles, 2009 - Springer
Thermus spp is one of the most wide spread genuses of thermophilic bacteria, with isolates
found in natural as well as in man-made thermal environments. The high growth rates, cell …

Nitrate reduction in the periplasm of gram-negative bacteria

L Potter, H Angove, D Richardson, J Cole - 2001 - Elsevier
In contrast to the bacterial assimilatory and membrane-associated, respiratory nitrate
reductases that have been studied for many years, it is only recently that periplasmic nitrate …

Transferable denitrification capability of Thermus thermophilus

L Alvarez, C Bricio, A Blesa, A Hidalgo… - Applied and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Laboratory-adapted strains of Thermus spp. have been shown to require oxygen for growth,
including the model strains T. thermophilus HB27 and HB8. In contrast, many isolates of this …

Involvement of NarK1 and NarK2 Proteins in Transport of Nitrate and Nitrite in the Denitrifying Bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

V Sharma, CE Noriega, JJ Rowe - Applied and environmental …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Two transmembrane proteins were tentatively classified as NarK1 and NarK2 in the
Pseudomonas genome project and hypothesized to play an important physiological role in …

Bioenergetics and solute uptake under extreme conditions

SV Albers, JL Vossenberg, AJ Driessen, WN Konings - Extremophiles, 2001 - Springer
The ion and particularly the proton and sodium ion permeabilities of cytoplasmic
membranes play crucial roles in the bioenergetics of microorganisms. The proton and …

Thermus oshimai JL-2 and T. thermophilus JL-18 genome analysis illuminates pathways for carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling

SK Murugapiran, M Huntemann, CL Wei, J Han… - Standards in genomic …, 2013 - Springer
The complete genomes of Thermus oshimai JL-2 and T. thermophilus JL-18 each consist of
a circular chromosome, 2.07 Mb and 1.9 Mb, respectively, and two plasmids ranging from …

Potential role of Thermus thermophilus and T. oshimai in high rates of nitrous oxide (N2O) production in ∼80 °C hot springs in the US Great Basin

BP Hedlund, AI McDonald, J Lam, JA Dodsworth… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ambient nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Great Boiling Spring (GBS) in the US Great
Basin depended on temperature, with the highest flux, 67.8±2.6 μmol N2O‐N m− 2 day− 1 …