Nitrate reduction to ammonia by enteric bacteria: redundancy, or a strategy for survival during oxygen starvation?
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- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 136 (1) , 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb08017.x
Abstract
Anaerobic metabolism of the simplest, best understood enteric bacteria such as Escherichia coli is unexpectedly complex. Recent studies of the biocheKeywords
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