Ratio of Electron Donor to Acceptor Influences Metabolic Specialization and Denitrification Dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Mixed Carbon Medium

Ratio of Electron Donor to Acceptor Influences Metabolic Specialization and Denitrification Dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Mixed Carbon Medium

Denitrifying microbes sequentially reduce nitrate (NO3–) to nitrite (NO2–), NO, N2O, and N2 through enzymes encoded by nar, nir, nor, and nos. Some denitrifiers maintain the whole four-gene pathway, but others possess partial pathways. Partial denitrifiers may evolve through metabolic specialization...

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Main Authors: Irene H. Zhang, Susan Mullen, Davide Ciccarese, Diana Dumit, Donald E. Martocello, Masanori Toyofuku, Nobuhiko Nomura, Steven Smriga, Andrew R. Babbin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
denitrification
rate-yield tradeoff
specialization
nitrite
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.711073/full

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