Affiliation:
1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA
Abstract
Paracoccus denitrificans
is a metabolically versatile Gram-negative bacterium that is used as a model for studies of respiratory metabolism. The organism can utilize nitrate as an electron acceptor for anaerobic respiration, reducing it to dinitrogen via nitrite, nitric oxide, and nitrous oxide.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology