Nitrobactor, possibly more than you wanted to know.

Posted by Dave W. on September 8, 2014
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Sourced - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16517654 The nitrobacter in all its glory

Sourced – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16517654
The nitrobacter in all its glory

Yesterday I discovered N. Samonas had a Fe requirement ( previously unknown or unmentioned in AP circles ).

Research goals

  • Overview/understand of what makes Nitrobacter tick

  • I’d like to know what NitroBacter needs for mitosis.

  • What conditions are ideal for Nitrobacter production ( PH, temperature, etc)

  • Metabolic performance/conversion for NO2 -> NO3 production

Nitrobactor overview

TODO

— Pubmed – Genome of Nitrobactor cell – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1393235/

Strikingly, the next most frequent BLAST hits (85 genes) were to the ammonia-oxidizing betaproteobacterium Nitrosomonas europaea.

I don’t find this striking or surprise, Nitrobacter and nitrosomonas are in a symbiotic relation ( N. bacter needs N. samonas ), so close proximity would lend to some mixing when you factor that these two bacteria have a genealogy going back possibly hundreds of thousands of years if not billions of years considering that oxygen didn’t show up until 3.5 billion years ago on earth. N. samonas especially is can be an anaerobic critter that could be happy in an oxygenless environment ( Yes N. Samonas needs oxygen but was that always true or is it just being opportunistic and grabbing a freely available oxidizer? ).

Nitrobactor development resources

TODO

Ntrobacter ideal environment

TODO

Nitrobactor conversion/performance

TODO
This fact maybe impossible to factor for as its rare to find pure Nitrite without nitrosomonas present