Dinitrogen production from nitrite by a nitrosomonas isolate.
A chemolithotrophic ammonium-oxidizing bacterium that was able to reduce NO(2) to N(2) (m/z 30) while oxidizing ammonium under conditions of oxygen stress was isolated from stream sediments. Energy was derived from ammonium oxidation, as evidence by growth, with CO(2) serving as the sole C source. The organism was a gram-negative, motile, short rod that failed to grow either aerobically or anaerobically in heterotroph media. The organism was identified as a Nitrosomonas sp.
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Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Riverside, California 92507.