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Diversity of ammonia monooxygenase operon in autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria.
Archives of microbiology - 1 Feb 2002
Norton Jeanette M, Alzerreca J Javier, Suwa Yuichi, Klotz Martin G
Abstract excerpt
Autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria use the essential enzyme ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) to transform ammonia to hydroxylamine. The amo operon consists of at least three genes, amoC, amoA, and amoB; amoA encodes the subunit containing the putative enzyme active site. The use of the amo genes as functional markers for ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in environmental applications requires knowledge of the diversity...
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