Prescott's Microbiology
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Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 11, Problem 9CHI
Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria have been thought to be restricted to using nitrite (NO2–) as an energy and electron source. However, the bacterium Nitrospira moscoviensis recently was shown to be capable of oxidizing hydrogen (H2) and using the energy released for growth. In fact, it can carry out both H2 and NO2– oxidation simultaneously. The authors of the study suggest that simultaneous H2 and NO2– might be particularly useful in low oxygen environments. Explain why this would be so.
Read the original paper: Koch, H., et al. 2014. Growth of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria by aerobic hydrogen oxidation, Science 345:1052.
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