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. 1986 Oct;52(4):957–959. doi: 10.1128/aem.52.4.957-959.1986

Dinitrogen Production from Nitrite by a Nitrosomonas Isolate

Mark Poth 1
PMCID: PMC239148  PMID: 16347192

Abstract

A chemolithotrophic ammonium-oxidizing bacterium that was able to reduce 15NO2− to 15N2 (m/z 30) while oxidizing ammonium under conditions of oxygen stress was isolated from stream sediments. Energy was derived from ammonium oxidation, as evidence by growth, with CO2 serving as the sole C source. The organism was a gram-negative, motile, short rod that failed to grow either aerobically or anaerobically in heterotroph media. The organism was identified as a Nitrosomonas sp.

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