| Literature DB >> 16644170 |
Boran Kartal1, Jayne Rattray, Laura A van Niftrik, Jack van de Vossenberg, Markus C Schmid, Richard I Webb, Stefan Schouten, John A Fuerst, Jaap Sinninghe Damsté, Mike S M Jetten, Marc Strous.
Abstract
The bacteria that mediate the anaerobic oxidation of ammonium (anammox) are detected worldwide in natural and man-made ecosystems, and contribute up to 50% to the loss of inorganic nitrogen in the oceans. Two different anammox species rarely live in a single habitat, suggesting that each species has a defined but yet unknown niche. Here we describe a new anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacterium with a defined niche: the co-oxidation of propionate and ammonium. The new anammox species was enriched in a laboratory scale bioreactor in the presence of ammonium and propionate. Interestingly, this particular anammox species could out-compete other anammox bacteria and heterotrophic denitrifiers for the oxidation of propionate in the presence of ammonium, nitrite and nitrate. We provisionally named the new species Candidatus "Anammoxoglobus propionicus".Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16644170 DOI： 10.1016/j.syapm.2006.03.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Syst Appl Microbiol ISSN： 0723-2020 Impact factor: 4.022