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SUBMITTER: Shen Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4786786 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20160311
It is crucial to reveal the regulatory mechanism of nitrification to understand nitrogen conversion in agricultural systems and wastewater treatment. In this study, the nwiI gene of Nitrobacter winogradskyi was confirmed to be a homoserine lactone synthase by heterologous expression in Escherichia coli that synthesized several acyl-homoserine lactone signals with 7 to 11 carbon acyl groups. A novel signal, 7, 8-trans-N-(decanoyl) homoserine lactone (C10:1-HSL), was identified in both N. winograd ...[more]