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The metabolic impact of extracellular nitrite on aerobic metabolism of Paracoccus denitrificans

Overview of attention for article published in Water Research, February 2017
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Title
The metabolic impact of extracellular nitrite on aerobic metabolism of Paracoccus denitrificans
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Water Research, February 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.watres.2017.02.011
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K.R. Hartop, M.J. Sullivan, G. Giannopoulos, A.J. Gates, P.L. Bond, Z. Yuan, T.A. Clarke, G. Rowley, D.J. Richardson

Abstract

Nitrite, in equilibrium with free nitrous acid (FNA), can inhibit both aerobic and anaerobic growth of microbial communities through bactericidal activities that have considerable potential for control of microbial growth in a range of water systems. There has been much focus on the effect of nitrite/FNA on anaerobic metabolism and so, to enhance understanding of the metabolic impact of nitrite/FNA on aerobic metabolism, a study was undertaken with a model denitrifying bacterium Paracoccus denitrificans PD1222. Extracellular nitrite inhibits aerobic growth of P. denitrificans in a pH-dependent manner that is likely to be a result of both nitrite and free nitrous acid (pKa = 3.25) and subsequent reactive nitrogen oxides generated from the intracellular passage of FNA into P. denitrificans. Increased expression of a gene encoding a flavohemoglobin protein (Fhp) (Pden_1689) was observed in response to extracellular nitrite. Construction and analysis of a deletion mutant established Fhp to be involved in endowing nitrite/FNA resistance at high extracellular nitrite concentrations. Global transcriptional analysis confirmed nitrite-dependent expression of fhp and indicated that P. denitrificans expressed a number of stress response systems associated with protein, DNA and lipid repair. It is therefore suggested that nitrite causes a pH-dependent stress response that is due to the production of associated reactive nitrogen species, such as nitric oxide from the internalisation of FNA.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Denmark 1 2%
Unknown 65 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 18%
Researcher 12 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Student > Bachelor 4 6%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 18 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 11 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 9%
Engineering 5 8%
Chemical Engineering 3 5%
Other 8 12%
Unknown 26 39%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 February 2017.
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#15,173,117
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Water Research
#5,981
of 11,876 outputs
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#224,921
of 424,567 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Water Research
#61
of 176 outputs
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