Nitrosomonas europaea oxidation

Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria including Nitrosomonas europaea... 

Hyman MR, AW Sansome-Smith, JH Shears, PM Wood (1985) A kinetic study of benzene oxidation to phenol by whole cells of Nitrosomonas europaea and evidence for the further oxidation of phenol to hydroqui-none. Arch Microbiol 143 302-306. 

Hyman MR, CL Page, DJ Arp (1994) Oxidation of methyl fluoride and dimethyl ether by ammonia monooxygenase in Nitrosomonas europaea. Appl Environ Microbiol 60 3033-3035. 

Jones RD, RY Morita (1983) Methane oxidation by Nitrosococcus oceanus and Nitrosomonas europaea. Appl Environ Microbiol 45 401-410. 

Vannelli T, AB Hooper (1992) Oxidation of nitrapyrin to 6-chloropicolinic acid by the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea. Appl Environ Microbiol 58 2321-2325. 

Flnoromethane has been nsed as a selective inhibitor of ammoninm oxidation and nitrification-linked synthesis of N2O in Nitrosomonas europaea (Miller et al.l993), while difluoromethane has been proposed as a reversible inhibitor of methanotrophs (Miller et al. 1998). 

Ammonia monooxygenase in Nitrosomonas europaea is able to oxidize fluoromethane to formaldehyde (Hyman et al. 1994). 

Arciero D, T Vannelli, N Logan, AB Hooper (1989) Degradation of trichloroethylene by the ammonia-oxidizing bacterinm Nitrosomonas europaea. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 159 640-642. 

Hollocher, T. C., Tate, M. E., and Nicholas, D. J. D. (1981). Oxidation of ammonia by Nitrosomonas europaea. Definitive O-tracer evidence that hydroxylamine formation involves a monooxygenase. J. Biol. Chem. 256, 10834-10836. 

Remde, A., and Conrad, R. (1990). Production of nitric oxide in Nitrosomonas europaea by reduction of nittite. Arch. Microbiol. 154, 187-191. 

Arciero, D., Vannelli.T., Logan, M. Hooper, A. B. (1989)- Degradation of trichloroethylene by the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea. Biochemistry and Biophysics Research Communications, 159, 640-3. 

The autotrophic NH3 oxidizers are considered to be obligate chemolithoautotrophs with no source of energy other than NH3 and no net source of cellular carbon other than CO2. Obhgate autotrophy had been attributed to the absence of one or more enzymes in the tricarboxyhc acid cycle, but inspection of the complete genome for Nitrosomonas europaea shows that a complete TCA cycle is present (Chain et al., 2003). N. europaea has hmited genetic capabihty for transport and metabolism of organic molecules, but the basis for its apparent obhgate dependence upon NH4 and CO2 is still not entirely clear. 

Chain, P., Lamerdin, J., Larimer, P. W., Regala, W., Lao, V., Land, M., Hauser, L., Hooper, A. B., Klotz, M., Norton,., Sayavedra-Soto, L., Arciero, D., et al. (2003). Complete genome sequence of the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium and obhgate chemohthoautotroph Nitrosomonas europaea. Journal of Bacteriology 185, 2759-2773. 

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