Cell biology and molecular basis of denitrification.
@article{Zumft1997CellBA,
title={Cell biology and molecular basis of denitrification.},
author={Walter G. Zumft},
journal={Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR},
year={1997},
volume={61 4},
pages={
533-616
}
}Denitrification is a distinct means of energy conservation, making use of N oxides as terminal electron acceptors for cellular bioenergetics under anaerobic, microaerophilic, and occasionally aerobic conditions. The process is an essential branch of the global N cycle, reversing dinitrogen fixation, and is associated with chemolithotrophic, phototrophic, diazotrophic, or organotrophic metabolism but generally not with obligately anaerobic life. Discovered more than a century ago and believed to…
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