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| ==Classification== | | ==Classification== |
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| ===Higher order taxa=== | | ===Higher order taxa=== |
| Bacteria;Proteobacteria;Alphaproteobacteria;Rhizobiales;Bradyrhizobiaceae;Nitrobacter | | Bacteria; Phylum; Class; Order; Family; Genus: |
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| ===Genus===
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| ''Nitrobacter winogradskyi''
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| ==Description and significance== | | ==Description and significance== |
| They live together with the ammonia oxidisers. They are present in many soils, natural stones as well as fresh or brackish waters. The presence of organic materials often selects for the facultatively lithotrophic Nitrobacter species.
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| Nitrobacter winogradsky can be found living in many soils, natural stones as well as both fresh water and salt water. They have many differing rod shaped cells which divide through polar swelling. It contains an asymmetrical membrane system, carboxysomes along with intracellular inclusion bodies. It can grow in both aerobic and anarobic conditions with nitrate as its electron acceptor.
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| It is important to sequence the genome of Nitrobacter winogradskyi to see the relation between itself and other bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle to improve nitrogen management.
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| Describe the appearance, habitat, etc. of the organism, and why it is important enough to have its genome sequenced. Describe how and where it was isolated.
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| ==Genome structure==
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| Describe the size and content of the genome. How many chromosomes? Circular or linear? Other interesting features? What is known about its sequence?
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| ==Cell structure and metabolism==
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| Nitrobacter winogradskyi plays a key role in the nitrogen cycle by converting nitrite to nitrate. It derives its energy through nitrite oxidation and carbon dioxide fixation, which it can do simultaniously, thus acting as a chemolithoautotroph. In the absence of nitrite it uses soley carbon sources and acts as a chemoorganoheterotroph.
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| ==Ecology==
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| It interacts with ammonium oxidizing bacteria which also plays a key role in the nitrogen cycle. Ammonium oxidizing bacteria inititaites nitrification, in which nitrite is the end product. Nitrobacter winogradskyi then proceeds to oxidize nitrite to nitrate.
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| Describe any interactions with other organisms (included eukaryotes), contributions to the environment, effect on environment, etc.
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| ==Pathology==
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| How does this organism cause disease? Human, animal, plant hosts? Virulence factors, as well as patient symptoms.
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| ==Application to Biotechnology==
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| Does this organism produce any useful compounds or enzymes? What are they and how are they used?
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| ==Current Research== | | ==Current Research== |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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| | [Sample reference] [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/50/2/489 Takai, K., Sugai, A., Itoh, T., and Horikoshi, K. "''Palaeococcus ferrophilus'' gen. nov., sp. nov., a barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney". ''International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology''. 2000. Volume 50. p. 489-500.] |
| http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/nitwi/nitwi.home.html
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| [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/100/14/8298 Glockner, F. O., M. Kube, M. Bauer, H. Teeling, T. Lombardot, W. Ludwig, D. Gade, A. Beck, K Borzym, K Heitmann, R. Rabus, H. Schlesner, R. Amann, and R. Reinhardt. 2003. "Complete genome sequence of the marine planctomycete ''Pirellula'' sp. strain 1."'' Proceedings of the National Acedemy of Sciences'', vol. 100, no. 14. (8298-8303)] | |
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