Microbe profile: Nitrosopumilus maritimus

Beate Kraft*, Donald E. Canfield

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Abstract

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.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftMicrobiology
Vol/bind168
Udgave nummer7
ISSN1350-0872
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022

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