Biological Nitrogen Removal Database

A manually curated data resource for microbial nitrogen removal


Detailed information

Microorganism

Uncultured bacterium

Taxonomy

  • Phylum : nan
  • Class : nan
  • Order : nan
  • Family : nan
  • Genus : nan

Isolation Source

Arable soil

Enzyme Name

putative nitrite reductase

  • Encoding Gene:NirK
  • DNA Size:473 bp
  • Nucleotide FASTA sequence: Link

  • UniProt I.D: nan

Protein Information

  • Pro_GenBank I.D: ABC02438.1

  • Length:158 aa
  • Protein FASTA_sequence: Link

Information about Article

  • Reference:Throback et al., 2007
  • Title:Silver (Ag+) Reduces Denitrification and Induces Enrichment of Novel nirK Genotypes in Soil
  • Pubmed ID:17250758.0
  • Pubmed link: Link

  • Full research link: Link

  • Abstract:The use of silver ions in industry to prevent microbial growth is increasing and silver is a new and an overlooked heavy-metal contaminant in sewage sludge-amended soil. The denitrifying community was the model used to assess the dose-dependent effects of silver ions on microorganisms overtime in soil microcosms. Silver caused a sigmoid dose-dependent reduction in denitrification activity, and no recovery was observed during 90 days. Dentrifiers with nirK, which encodes the copper nitrite reductase, were targeted to estimate abundance and community composition for some of the concentrations. The nirK copy number decreased by the highest addition (100 mg Ag kg(-1) soil), but the nirK diversity increased. Treatment-specific sequences not clustering with any deposited nirK sequences were found, indicating that silver induces enrichment of novel nirK denitrifiers.