Azotobacter agile

Production of hydrazine and its use as a chemical intermediate, reducing agent, rocket fuel and boiler-water treatment agent may result in its release to the environment through various waste streams. Hydrazine is also naturally produced by Azotobacter agile during nitrogen fixation. It has been detected at low levels in wastewater samples (United States National Library of Medicine, 1997). 

G. N. Zaitseva and A. N. Belozersky (1958). The chemistry of Azotobacter. Phosphorus compounds in Azotobacter agile at different growth stages and with different nitrogen sources (in Russian). 

G. N. Zaitseva and Li Tszyun-in (1961). The effect of X-rays on phosphorus and nitrogen metabolism in Azotobacter agile (in Russian). Mikrobiologiia, 30, 197-202. 

Azotobacter agile, transhydrogenase of, 54 Azotobacter chroococcum nitrite reductase of, 275, 276-277 transhydrogenase of, 54 Azotobacter vinelandii NADH dehydrogenase of, 221... 

The nitrite reductase of Azotobacter vinelandvi (A. agile) was extracted in soluble form by Nason and his colleagues (537). The preparation reduced nitrite and hydroxylamine in the presence of reduced nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotides and required flavin for maximal activity. FAD was shown to be specific for nitrite reduction, whereas both FAD and FMN were active for hydroxylamine reduction. The hydroxylamine reductase activity of the preparation was enhanced in the presence of Mn +. Ammonia was shown to be the product of nitrite reduction, but the product of hydroxylamine reduction was not identified. Another nitrite and hydroxylamine reductase, which had a Mn requirement, was also isolated and partially purified in Nason s laboratory from soybean... 

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