The marine nitrogen cycle: new developments and global change

DA Hutchins, DG Capone - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The ocean is home to a diverse and metabolically versatile microbial community that
performs the complex biochemical transformations that drive the nitrogen cycle, including …

Nitrite oxidation in wastewater treatment: microbial adaptation and suppression challenges

Z Su, T Liu, J Guo, M Zheng - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microbial nitrite oxidation is the primary pathway that generates nitrate in wastewater
treatment systems and can be performed by a variety of microbes: namely, nitrite-oxidizing …

The microbial nitrogen-cycling network

MMM Kuypers, HK Marchant, B Kartal - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Nitrogen is an essential component of all living organisms and the main nutrient limiting life
on our planet. By far, the largest inventory of freely accessible nitrogen is atmospheric …

Complete nitrification: insights into the ecophysiology of comammox Nitrospira

H Koch, MAHJ van Kessel, S Lücker - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia via nitrite to nitrate, has been considered to be a
stepwise process mediated by two distinct functional groups of microorganisms. The …

Processes and microorganisms involved in the marine nitrogen cycle: knowledge and gaps

S Pajares, R Ramos - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Nitrogen (N) is a key element for life in the oceans. It controls primary productivity in many
parts of the global ocean, consequently playing a crucial role in the uptake of atmospheric …

Nitrification and denitrification in recirculating aquaculture systems: the processes and players

PG Preena, VJ Rejish Kumar… - Reviews in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
One of the major challenges in any sustainable aquaculture production systems is the
accumulation of nitrogenous waste such as ammonia and its biological nitrification products …

Metabolic versatility of the nitrite-oxidizing bacterium Nitrospira marina and its proteomic response to oxygen-limited conditions

B Bayer, MA Saito, MR McIlvin, S Lücker… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The genus Nitrospira is the most widespread group of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria and thrives in
diverse natural and engineered ecosystems. Nitrospira marina Nb-295T was isolated from …

Cultivation and genomic characterization of novel and ubiquitous marine nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the Nitrospirales

AJ Mueller, A Daebeler, CW Herbold… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nitrospirales, including the genus Nitrospira, are environmentally widespread
chemolithoautotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacteria. These mostly uncultured microorganisms …

Prokaryotic life in the deep ocean's water column

GJ Herndl, B Bayer, F Baltar… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The oceanic waters below a depth of 200 m represent, in terms of volume, the largest habitat
of the biosphere, harboring approximately 70% of the prokaryotic biomass in the oceanic …

Characterization of the First “Candidatus Nitrotoga” Isolate Reveals Metabolic Versatility and Separate Evolution of Widespread Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria

K Kitzinger, H Koch, S Lücker, CJ Sedlacek, C Herbold… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Nitrification is a key process of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle and of biological
wastewater treatment. The second step, nitrite oxidation to nitrate, is catalyzed by …