Microbe Profile: Nitrosopumilus maritimus

Autor: Beate Kraft, Don Canfield
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Microbiology. 168
ISSN: 1465-2080
1350-0872
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001207
Popis: Nitrosopumilus maritimus is a marine ammonia-oxidizing archaeon with a high affinity for ammonia. It fixes carbon via a modified hydroxypropionate/hydroxybutyrate cycle and shows weak utilization of cyanate as a supplementary energy and nitrogen source. When oxygen is depleted, N. maritimus produces its own oxygen, which may explain its regular occurrence in anoxic waters. Several enzymes of the ammonia oxidation and oxygen production pathways remain to be identified.
Databáze: OpenAIRE