Global nitrogen cycle: critical enzymes, organisms, and processes for nitrogen budgets and dynamics

X Zhang, BB Ward, DM Sigman - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen (N) is used in many of life's fundamental biomolecules, and it is also a participant in
environmental redox chemistry. Biogeochemical processes control the amount and form of N …

Antimicrobial activity of photocatalysts: Fundamentals, mechanisms, kinetics and recent advances

P Ganguly, C Byrne, A Breen, SC Pillai - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Photocatalysis has recently been emerged as an effective green solution for antimicrobial
disinfection applications. Photocatalytic disinfection has been observed to be efficient in …

Anammox biochemistry: a tale of heme c proteins

B Kartal, JT Keltjens - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2016 - cell.com
Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria are one of the latest scientific
discoveries in the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. These microorganisms are able to oxidize …

How to make a living from anaerobic ammonium oxidation

B Kartal, NM de Almeida, WJ Maalcke… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria primarily grow by the oxidation of
ammonium coupled to nitrite reduction, using CO2 as the sole carbon source. Although they …

The Syntrophy hypothesis for the origin of eukaryotes revisited

P López-García, D Moreira - Nature microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
The discovery of Asgard archaea, phylogenetically closer to eukaryotes than other archaea,
together with improved knowledge of microbial ecology, impose new constraints on …

Identifying the dominant soil bacterial taxa in libraries of 16S rRNA and 16S rRNA genes

PH Janssen - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2006 - journals.asm.org
In 1909, H. Joel Conn (25) expressed the hope that methods would soon be at hand by
which the significance of the different bacteria present in any soil could be determined …

[KIRJA][B] Dynamic energy budget theory for metabolic organisation

SALM Kooijman - 2010 - books.google.com
" Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory is a formal theory for the uptake and use of
substrates (food, nutrients and light) by organisms and their use for maintenance, growth …

Deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome

M Strous, E Pelletier, S Mangenot, T Rattei, A Lehner… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) has become a main focus in oceanography and
wastewater treatment,. It is also the nitrogen cycle's major remaining biochemical enigma …

Beyond the bacterium: planctomycetes challenge our concepts of microbial structure and function

JA Fuerst, E Sagulenko - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2011 - nature.com
Planctomycetes form a distinct phylum of the domain Bacteria and possess unusual features
such as intracellular compartmentalization and a lack of peptidoglycan in their cell walls …

Biochemistry and molecular biology of anammox bacteria

MSM Jetten, L Niftrik, M Strous, B Kartal… - Critical reviews in …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria are one of the latest additions to the
biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. These bacteria derive their energy for growth from the …