Publications of the Institute of Molecular Microbiology

(in chronological order)

 

 

WÜST, A.; SCHNEIDER, L; POMOWSKI, A.; ZUMFT, W.G.; KRONECK, P.M.H.; EINSLE, O.

Nature's way of handling a greenhouse gas: the copper-sulfur cluster of purple nitrous oxide reductase.

Biological Chemistry 393, 1067-1077 (2012).  Abstract

 

POMOWSKI, A.; ZUMFT, W.G.; KRONECK, P.M.H.; EINSLE, O.

N2O binding at a [4Cu:2S] copper-sulfur cluster in nitrous oxide reductase

Nature 477, 234-237 (2011).  Abstract

 

POMOWSKI, A.; ZUMFT, W.G.; KRONECK, P.M.H; EINSLE, O
Crystallization of purple nitrous oxide reductase from Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications  66 (Pt 11), 1541-1543 (2010).
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.
Respiratory nitric oxide reductases, NorB and NorZ, of the heme-copper oxidase type. In: The smallest biomolecules: diatomics and their interactions with heme proteins. GHOSH, A. (ed.)
Elsevier Science Publishers Amsterdam-Oxford-New York-Tokyo (2008) p. 332-358.
Contents

VAN WONDEREN, J.H.; KNIGHT, C.; OGANESYAN, V.S.; GEORGE, S.J.; ZUMFT, W.G.; CHEESMAN, M.R.
Activation of the cytochrome cd1 nitrite reductase from Paracoccus pantotrophus: reaction of oxidised enzyme with substrate drives a ligand switch at heme c
.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 282, 28207-28215 (2007).
Abstract

STROHM, T.O.; GRIFFIN, B.; ZUMFT, W.G.; SCHINK, B.
Growth yields in bacterial denitrification and nitrate ammonification.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73:1420-1424 (2007).
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.; KÖRNER, H.
Nitrous oxide reductases. In: Biology of the nitrogen cycle. H. BOTHE, S. FERGUSON, W.E. NEWTON (eds.)
Elsevier Science Publishers Amsterdam-Oxford-New York-Tokyo (2007). 426 pp.
Contents

ZUMFT, W.G.; KRONECK, P.M.H.
Respiratory transformation of nitrous oxide (N2O) to dinitrogen by Bacteria and Archaea.
Advances in Microbial Physiology 52, 107-227 (2007).
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.
Biogenesis of the bacterial respiratory CuA, Cu-S enzyme nitrous oxide reductase.
Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology 10, 154-166 (2005).
Abstract

WUNSCH, P.; KÖRNER, H.; NEESE, F.; VAN SPANNING, R.J.; KRONECK, P.M.; ZUMFT, W.G.
NosX function connects to nitrous oxide (N2O) reduction by affecting the CuZ center of NosZ and its activity in vivo.
FEBS Letters 579, 4605-4609 (2005).
Abstract

WUNSCH, P.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Functional domains of NosR, a novel transmembrane iron-sulfur flavoprotein necessary for nitrous oxide respiration.
Journal of Bacteriology 187, 1992-2001 (2005).
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.
Nitric oxide reductases of prokaryotes with emphasis on the respiratory, heme-copper oxidase type.
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 99, 194-215 (2005).
Abstract

SIMON, J.; EINSLE, O.; KRONECK, P.M.H.; ZUMFT, W.G.
The unprecedented nos gene cluster of Wolinella succinogenes encodes a novel respiratory electron transfer pathway to cytochrome c nitrous oxide reductase.
FEBS Letters 569: 7-12 (2004).
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.
Denitrification by pseudomonads: control and assembly processes.
In: Pseudomonas (Vol. 3): Biosynthesis of macromolecules and molecular metabolism.
J.-L. RAMOS (ed.)
Kluwer Academic Publishers - Plenum Publications, New York (2004) p. 193-227.

FARVER, O.; KRONECK, P.M.H.; ZUMFT, W.G.; PECHT, I.
Allosteric control of internal electron transfer in cytochrome cd1 nitrite reductase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100: 7622-7625 (2003).
Abstract

HONISCH, U.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Operon structure and regulation of the nos gene region of Pseudomonas stutzeri, encoding an ABC-type ATPase for maturation of nitrous oxide reductase.
Journal of Bacteriology 185: 1895-1902 (2003).
Abstract

KÖRNER, H.; SOFIA, H.J.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Phylogeny of the bacterial superfamily of Crp-Fnr transcription regulators: exploiting the metabolic spectrum by controlling alternative gene programs.
FEMS Microbiology Reviews 27: 559-592 (2003).
Abstract

WUNSCH, P.; HERB, M.; WIELAND, H.; SCHIEK, U.M.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Requirements for CuA and Cu-S center assembly of nitrous oxide reductase deduced from complete periplasmic enzyme maturation in the nondenitrifier Pseudomonas putida.
Journal of Bacteriology 185: 887-896 (2003).
Abstract

HAKATA, M.; TAKAHASHI, M.; ZUMFT, W.G.; SAKAMOTO, A.; MORIKAWA, H
Conversion of the nitrate nitrogen and nitrogen dioxide to nitrous oxides in plants.
Acta Biotechnologica 23: 249-257 (2003).
Abstract

ARESE; M.; ZUMFT,W.G.; CUTRUZZOLA, F.
Expression of a fully functional cd1 nitrite reductase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Protein Expression and Purification 27: 42-48 (2003).
Abstract

FARVER, O.; KRONECK, P.M.; ZUMFT, W.G.; PECHT, I.
Intramolecular electron transfer in cytochrome cd1 nitrite reductase from Pseudomonas stutzeri: kinetics and thermodynamics.
Biophysical Chemistry 98: 27-34 (2002).
Abstract

EPEL, B.; SLUTTER,C.S.; NEESE,F.; KRONECK,P.M.; ZUMFT,W.G.; PECHT, I.; FARVER, O.; LU,Y.; GOLDFARB, D.
Electron-mediating CuA centers in proteins: a comparative high field 1H ENDOR study.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 124: 8152-8162 (2002).
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.
Nitric oxide signaling and NO dependent transcriptional control in bacterial denitrification by members of the FNR-CRP regulator family.
Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology 4: 277-86 (2002).
Abstract

ALVAREZ, M.L.; AI, J.; ZUMFT, W.G.; SANDERS-LOEHR, J.; DOOLEY, D.M.
Characterization of the copper-sulfur chromophores in nitrous oxide reductase by resonance Raman spectroscopy: evidence for sulfur coordination in the catalytic cluster.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 123: 576-587 (2001).
Abstract

HEIKKILÄ, M. P.; HONISCH, U.; WUNSCH, P.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Role of the Tat transport system in nitrous oxide reductase translocation and cytochrome cd1 biosynthesis in Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Journal of Bacteriology 183: 1663-1671 (2001).
Abstract

VOLLACK, K.-U.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Nitric oxide signaling and transcriptional control of denitrification genes in Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Journal of Bacteriology 183: 2516-2526 (2001).
Abstract

WILSON, E.K.; BELLELLI, A.; CUTRUZZOLÀ, F.; ZUMFT, W.G.; GUTIERREZ, A.; SCRUTTON, N.S.
Kinetics of CO binding and CO photodissociation in Pseudomonas stutzeri cd1-nitrite reductase: probing the role of extended N-termini in fast structural relaxation upon CO photodissociation.
Biochemical Journal 355: 39-43 (2001).
Abstract

CHARNOCK, J.M.; DREUSCH, A.; KÖRNER, H.; NEESE, F.; NELSON, J.; KANNT A.; MICHEL, H.; GARNER, C.D.; KRONECK, P.M.H.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Structural investigations of the CuA center of nitrous oxide reductase from Pseudomonas stutzeri by site-directed mutagenesis and X-ray absorption spectroscopy.
European Journal of Biochemistry 267: 1368-1381 (2000).
Abstract

RASMUSSEN, T.; BERKS, B.C.; SANDERS-LOEHR, J.; DOOLEY, D.M., ZUMFT, W.G.; THOMSON, A.J.
The catalytic center in nitrous oxide reductase, CuZ, is a copper-sulfide cluster.
Biochemistry 39: 12753-12756 (2000).
Abstract

GIUFFRÈ A.; STUBAUER G.; SARTI P.; BRUNORI M.; ZUMFT W.G.; BUSE G.; SOULIMANE T.
The heme-copper oxidases of Thermus thermophilus catalyze the reduction of nitric oxide: evolutionary implications.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 96: 14718-14723 (1999).
Abstract

HÄRTIG, E.; SCHIEK, U.; VOLLACK, K.-U.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Nitrate and nitrite control of respiratory nitrate reduction in denitrifying Pseudomonas stutzeri by a two-component regulatory system homologous to NarXL of Escherichia coli.
Journal of Bacteriology 181: 3658-3665 (1999).
Abstract

HÄRTIG, E.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Kinetics of nirS expression (cytochrome cd1 nitrite reductase) in Pseudomonas stutzeri during the transition from aerobic respiration to denitrification: Evidence for a denitrification-specific nitrate- and nitrite-responsive regulatory system.
Journal of Bacteriology 181: 161-166 (1999).
Abstract

HOLZ, R.C.; ALVAREZ, M.L.; ZUMFT, W.G.; DOOLEY, D.M.
1H NMR studies on the CuA center of nitrous oxide reductase from Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Biochemistry 38: 11164-11171 (1999).
Abstract

VOLLACK, K.-U.; HÄRTIG, E.; KÖRNER, H.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Multiple transcription factors of the FNR family in denitrifying Pseudomonas stutzeri: characterization of four fnr-like genes, regulatory responses and cognate metabolic processes.
Molecular Microbiology 31: 1681-1694 (1999).
Abstract

CHEESMAN, M.R.; ZUMFT, W.G.; THOMSON, A.J.
The MCD and EPR of the heme centers of nitric oxide reductase: evidence that the enzyme is structurally related to the heme-copper oxidases.
Biochemistry 37 (1998) p. 3994-4000. 
Abstract

FARRAR, J.; ZUMFT, W.G.; THOMSON, A.J.
Cu
A and CuZ are variants of the electron transfer center in nitrous oxide reductase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 95 (1998) p. 9891-9896. 
Abstract

HÄRTIG, E.; ZUMFT, W.G.
The requirement of RpoN (sigma factor
s54) in denitrification of Pseudomonas stutzeri is indirect and restricted to the reduction of nitrite and nitric oxide.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64 (1998) p. 3092-3095. 
Abstract

KANNT, A.; MICHEL, H.; CHEESMAN, M.R.; THOMSON, A.J.; DREUSCH, A.; KÖRNER, H.; ZUMFT, W. G.
The electron transfer centers of nitric oxide reductase: homology with the heme-copper oxidase family.
In  Biological Electron-Transfer Chains: Genetics, Composition and Mode of Operation. G. W. CANTERS and E. VIJGENBOOM, (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London (1998) p. 279-291. 
Abstract

NEESE, F.; KAPPL, R.; HÜTTERMANN, J.; ZUMFT, W.G.;  KRONECK, P.M.H.
Probing the ground state of the purple mixed valence CuA center in nitrous oxide reductase: a CW ENDOR (X-band) study of the
65Cu, 15N-histidine labeled enzyme and interpretation of hyperfine couplings by molecular orbital calculations.
Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 3 (1998) p. 53-67. 
Abstract

VOLLACK, K.-U.; XIE, J.; HÄRTIG, E.H.; RÖMLING, U.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Localization of denitrification genes on the chromosomal map of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Microbiology-UK 144 (1998) p. 441-448. 
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.
The nitrogen cycle sustained by prokaryotes: reversing dinitrogen fixation.
In Biological Nitrogen Fixation for the 21st Century. ELMERICH, C.; KONDOROSI, A; NEWTON, W.E. (eds.). Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Institut Pasteur, Paris, July 20-25, 1997.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London (1998)  p.61-66.


BOETTGER, E.; KIRSCHNER, P.; SPRINGER, B.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Mycobacteria degrading polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 47 (1997) p. 247.

CHEESMAN, M.R.; FERGUSON, S.J.; MOIR, J.W.B.; RICHARDSON, D.J.; ZUMFT, W.G.; THOMSON, A.J.
Two enzymes with a common function but different heme ligands in the forms as isolated. Optical and magnetic properties of the heme groups in the oxidized forms of nitrite reductase, cytochrome cd
1 from Pseudomonas stutzeri and Thiosphaera pantotropha.
Biochemistry 36 (1997) p. 16267-16276.  Abstract

DREUSCH, A.; BÜRGISSER, D.M.; HEIZMANN, C.W.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Lack of copper insertion into unprocessed cytoplasmic nitrous oxide reductase generated by an R20D substitution in the arginine consensus motif of the signal peptide.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta  (Bioenergetics) 1319 (1997) p. 311-318. 
Abstract

KRONECK, P.M.H.; KASTRAU, D.H.W.; SCHUMACHER, W.; HOLE, U.H.; NEESE, F.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Novel binuclear metal centers in cytochrome c nitrite reductase and nitrous oxide reductase: a spectroscopic and molecular orbital study.
In  Bioinorganic Chemistry - Transition Metals in Biology and their Coordination Chemistry. Chapter 5, TRAUTWEIN, A.X. (ed.).
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (1997) p. 710-724. 
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.
Cell biology and molecular basis of denitrification.
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 61 (1997) p. 533-616. 
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.; DREUSCH, A.; GLOCKNER, A.; KRONECK, P.M.H.
Structural and functional aspects of novel iron- and copper-containing enzymes catalyzing the dissimilatory transformation of N oxides by bacteria.
In
  Bioinorganic Chemistry - Transition Metals in Biology and their Coordination Chemistry. Chapter 16, TRAUTWEIN, A.X. (ed.)
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (1997) p. 397-411. 
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.; KÖRNER, H.
Enzyme diversity and mosaic gene organization in denitrification.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology71 (1997) p. 43-58. 
Abstract

DOOLEY, D.M.; ALVAREZ, M.L., ROSENZWEIG, A.C.; HOLLIS, R.S.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Exogenous ligand binding to Pseudomonas stutzeri nitrous oxide reductase.
Inorganica Chimica Acta 242 (1996) p. 239-244. 
Abstract

DREUSCH, A.; RIESTER, J.; KRONECK, P.M.H.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Mutation of the conserved Cys165 outside of the Cu
A domain destabilizes nitrous oxide reductase but maintains its catalytic activity: evidence for disulfide bridges and a putative protein disulfide isomerase gene.
European Journal of Biochemistry 237 (1996) p. 447-453. 
Abstract

FARRAR, J.A.; NEESE, F.; LAPPALAINEN, P.; KRONECK, P.M.H.; SARASTE, M.; ZUMFT, W.G.; THOMSON, A.J.
The electronic structure of Cu
A: a novel mixed-valence dinuclear copper electron-transfer center.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (1996) p. 11501-11514. 
Abstract

GLOCKNER, A.B.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Sequence analysis of an internal 9.72-kb segment from the 30-kb denitrification gene cluster of Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (Gene Structure and Expression) 1277 (1996) p. 6-12. 
Abstract

HOLE, U.H.; VOLLACK, K.-U.; ZUMFT, W.G.; EISENMANN, E.; SIDDIQUI, R.A.; FRIEDRICH, B.; KRONECK, P.M.H.
Characterization of the membranous denitrification enzymes nitrite reductase (cytochrome cd
1) and copper-containing nitrous oxide reductase from  Thiobacillus denitrificans.
Archives of Microbiology 165 (1996) p. 55-61. 
Abstract

NEESE, F.; ZUMFT, W.G.; ANTHOLINE, W.E.; KRONECK, P.M.H.
The purple mixed-valence Cu
A center in nitrous oxide reductase: EPR of the copper-63-, copper-65-, and both copper-65- and [15N]histidine-enriched enzyme and a molecular orbital interpretation.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (1996) p. 8692-8699. 
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.; KRONECK, P.M.H.
Metal-center assembly of the bacterial multicopper enzyme nitrous oxide reductase.
Advances in Inorganic Biochemistry 11 (1996) p. 193-221.

CUYPERS, H.; BERGHÖFER, J.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Multiple nosZ promoters and anaerobic expression of nos genes necessary for Pseudomonas stutzeri nitrous oxide reductase and assembly of its copper centers.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (Gene Structure and Expression) 1264 (1995) p. 183-190. 
Abstract

FARRAR, J.A.; LAPPALAINEN, P.; ZUMFT, W.G.; SARASTE, M.; THOMSON, A.J.
Spectroscopic and mutagenesis studies on the Cu
A centre from the cytochrome-c oxidase complex of Paracoccus denitrificans.
European Journal of Biochemistry 232 (1995) p. 294-303. 
Abstract

PALMEDO, G.; SEITHER, P.; KÖRNER, H.; MATTHEWS, J.C.; BURKHALTER, R.S.; TIMKOVICH, R.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Resolution of the nirD locus for heme d
1 synthesis of cytochrome cd1 (respiratory nitrite reductase) from Pseudomonas stutzeri.
European Journal of Biochemistry 232 (1995)  p. 737-746. 
Abstract

PFENNIGER, S.; ANTHOLINE, W.E.; BARR, M.E.; HYDE, J.S.; KRONECK, P.M.H.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Electron spin-lattice relaxation of the [Cu(1.5...Cu(1.5)] dinuclear copper center in nitrous oxide reductase.
Biophysical Journal 69 (1995) p. 2761-2769. 
Abstract

TIEHM, A.; FRITZSCHE, C.
Utilization of solubilized and crystalline mixtures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by a Mycobacterium sp.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 42 (1995) p. 964-968.

FRITZSCHE, C.
Degradation of pyrene at low defined oxygen concentrations by a Mycobacterium sp.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60 (1994) p. 1687-1689.

KASTRAU, D.H.W.; HEISS, B.; KRONECK, P.M.H.; ZUMFT, W.G.
Nitric oxide reductase from Pseudomonas stutzeri, a novel cytochrome bc complex: phospholipid requirement, electron paramagnetic resonance and redox properties.
European Journal of Biochemistry 222 (1994) p. 293-303. 
Abstract

VAN DER OOST, J.; DE BOER, A.P.N.; DE GIER, J.-W. L.; ZUMFT, W.G.; STOUTHAMER, A.H.; VAN SPANNING, R.J.M.
The heme-copper oxidase family consists of three distinct types of terminal oxidases and is related to nitric oxide reductase.
FEMS Microbiology Letters 121 (1994) p. 1-10. 
Abstract

TIEHM, A.
Degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the presence of synthetic surfactants.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60 (1994) p. 258-263.

ZUMFT, W.G.
Current topics in the biochemistry and genetics of bacterial denitrification.
Nova Acta Leopoldina NF 70 (1994) p. 237-249. 
Abstract

ZUMFT, W.G.; BRAUN, C.; CUYPERS, H.
Nitric oxide reductase from Pseudomonas stutzeri: Primary structure and gene organization of a novel bacterial cytochrome c complex.
European Journal of Biochemistry 219 (1994) p. 481-490. 
Abstract

BOLDRIN, B.; FRITZSCHE, C.; TIEHM, A.
Degradation of phenanthrene, fluorene, fluoranthene, and pyrene by a Mycobacterium sp.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59 (1993) p. 1927-1930.

CUYPERS, H.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Anaerobic control of denitrification in Pseudomonas stutzeri escapes mutagenesis of an fnr-like gene.
Journal of Bacteriology 175 (1993) p. 7236-7246. 
Abstract

FRUNZKE, K.; HEISS B.; MEYER, O.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Molybdenum guanine dinucleotide is the organic moiety of the molybdenum cofactor in respiratory nitrate reductase from Pseudomonas stutzeri.
FEMS Microbiology Letters 113 (1993) p. 241-245. 
Abstract

GLOCKNER, A.; JÜNGST, A.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Copper-containing nitrite reductase from Pseudomonas aureofaciens is functional in a mutationally cytochrome cd
1-free (NirS-) background of Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Archives of Microbiology 160 (1993) p. 18-26. 
Abstract

KÖRNER, H.
Anaerobic expression of nitric oxide reductase from denitrifying Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Archives of Microbiology 159 (1993) p. 410-416. 
Abstract

KRONECK, P. M. H.; ANTHOLINE, W. E.; KOTEICH, H.; KASTRAU, D. H. W.; NEESE, F.; ZUMFT, W. G.
The EPR-detectable copper of nitrous oxide reductase as a model for Cu
A in cytochrome c oxidase, a multifrequency electron paramagnetic resonance investigation.
In Bioinorganic Chemistry of Copper. KARLIN, K. D., TYEKLAR, Z. (eds.) Chapman & Hall, New York (1993) p. 419-426.

ZUMFT, W. G.
The biological role of nitric oxide in bacteria.
Archives of Microbiology 160 (1993) p. 253-264. 
Abstract

ANTHOLINE, W. E.; KASTRAU, D. H. W.; STEFFENS, G. C. M.; BUSE, G.; ZUMFT, W. G.; KRONECK, P. M. H.
A comparative electron paramagnetic resonance investigation of the multicopper proteins nitrous oxide reductase and cytochrome c oxidase.
European Journal of Biochemistry 209 (1992) p. 875-881.   
Abstract

BRAUN, C.; ZUMFT, W. G.
The structural genes of the nitric oxide reductase complex from Pseudomonas stutzeri are part of a 30-kilobase gene cluster for denitrification.
Journal of Bacteriology 174 (1992) p. 2394-2397.   
Abstract

CUYPERS, H.; VIEBROCK-SAMBALE, A.; ZUMFT, W. G.
NosR, a membrane-bound regulatory component necessary for expression of nitrous oxide reductase in denitrifying Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Journal of Bacteriology 174 (1992) p. 5332-5339.   
Abstract

CUYPERS, H.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Regulatory components of the denitrification gene cluster of Pseudomonas stutzeri.
In Pseudomonas: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. GALLI, E.; SILVER, S.; WITHOLT, B. (eds.) American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C. (1992) p.188-197.

JÜNGST, A.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Interdependence of respiratory NO reduction and nitrite reduction revealed by mutagenesis of nirQ, a novel gene in the denitrification gene cluster of Pseudomonas stutzeri.
FEBS Letters 314 (1992) p. 308-314.   
Abstract

KÖRNER, H; MAYER, F.
Periplasmic location of nitrous oxide reductase and its apoform in denitrifying Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Archives of Microbiology 157 (1992) p. 218-222.

ZUMFT, W. G.
The denitrifying prokaryotes.
In The Prokaryotes. A Handbook on the Biology of Bacteria, Ecophysiology, Isolation, Identification, Applications, 2nd ed. BALOWS, A.; TRÜPER, H. G.; DWORKIN, M.; HARDER, W.; SCHLEIFER, K. H. (eds.). Springer-Verlag, New York. (1992) p. 554-582.

ZUMFT, W. G.; BLÜMLE, S.; BRAUN, C.; KÖRNER, H.
Chlorate resistant mutants of Pseudomonas stutzeri affected in respiratory and assimilatory nitrate utilization, and expression of cytochrome cd
1.
FEMS Microbiology Letters 91(1992) p. 153-158.   
Abstract

ZUMFT, W. G.; DREUSCH, A.; LÖCHELT, S.; CUYPERS, H.; FRIEDRICH, B.; SCHNEIDER, B.
Derived amino acid sequences of the nosZ genes (respiratory N
2O reductase) from Alcaligenes eutrophus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Pseudomonas stutzeri reveal potential copper-binding residues. Implications for the CuA site of N2O reductase and cytochrome c oxidase.
European Journal of Biochemistry 208 (1992) p.31-40.   
Abstract

BLÜMLE, S.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Respiratory nitrate reductase from denitrifying Pseudomonas stutzeri, purification, properties, and target of proteolysis.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1057 (1991) p. 102-108.   
Abstract

BRAUN, C.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Marker exchange of the structural genes for nitric oxide reductase blocks the denitrification pathway of Pseudomonas stutzeri at nitric oxide.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 266 (1991) p. 22785-22788.   
Abstract

DOOLEY, D. M.; LANDIN, J.; ROSENZWEIG, A. C.; ZUMFT, W. G.; DAY, E. P.
Magnetic properties of Pseudomonas stutzeri nitrous oxide reductase.
Journal of American Chemical Society 113 (1991) p. 8978-8980.

DOOLEY, D. M.; MC GUIRL, M. A.; ROSENZWEIG, A. C.; LANDIN, J. A.; SCOTT, R. A.; ZUMFT, W. G.; DEVLIN, F.; STEPHENS, P. J.
Spectroscopic studies of the copper sites in Pseudomonas stutzeri N
2O reductase and in an inactive protein isolated from a mutant deficient in copper-site biosynthesis.
Inorganic Chemistry 30 (1991) p.3006-3011.

FARRAR, J. A.; THOMSON, A. J.; CHEESMAN, M. R.; DOOLEY, D. M.; ZUMFT, W. G.
A model of the copper centres of nitrous oxide reductase (Pseudomonas stutzeri). Evidence from optical, EPR and MCD spectroscopy.
FEBS Letters 294 (1991) p. 11-15.   
Abstract

JÜNGST, A.; BRAUN, C.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Close linkage in Pseudomonas stutzeri of the structural genes for respiratory nitrite reductase and nitrous oxide reductase, and other essential genes for denitrification.
Molecular and General Genetics 225 (1991) p. 241-248.   
Abstract

JÜNGST, A.; WAKABAYASHI, S.; MATSUBARA, H.; ZUMFT, W. G.
The nirSTBM region coding for cytochrome cd
1-dependent nitrite respiration of Pseudomonas stutzeri consists of a cluster of mono-, di-, and tetraheme proteins.
FEBS Letters 279 (1991) p. 205-209.   
Abstract

KRONECK, P. M. H.; ANTHOLINE, W. E.; KASTRAU, D.H.W.; BUSE, G.; STEFFENS, G.C.M.; ZUMFT W. G.
Multifrequency EPR evidence for a bimetallic center at the Cu
A site in cytochrome c oxidase.
FEBS Letters 268 (1990) p. 274-276.   
Abstract

KRONECK, P. M. H.; RIESTER, J.; ZUMFT, W. G.; ANTHOLINE, W. E.
The copper site in nitrous oxide reductase.
Biology of Metals 3 (1990) p. 103-109.

KRONECK, P. H. M.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Bioinorganic aspects of denitrification. Structures and reactions of N
xOy compounds and their interaction with iron and copper proteins.
In Denitrification in Soil and Sediment. REVSBECH, N. P. R.; SÖRENSEN, J. (eds.). Plenum Press, New York. (1990) p. 1-20.

ZUMFT, W. G.; VIEBROCK-SAMBALE, A.; BRAUN, C.
Nitrous oxide reductase from denitrifying Pseudomonas stutzeri. Genes for copper-processing and properties of the deduced products, including a new member of the family of ATP/GTP-binding proteins.
European Journal of Biochemistry 192 (1990) p. 591-599.   
Abstract

ZUMFT, W. G.
Molecular analysis of the denitrification system of pseudomonads.
In Nitrogen Fixation: Achievements and Objectives. GRESSHOFF, P. M.; NEWTON, W. E.; ROTH, E. L.; STACEY, G. (eds.) Chapman-Hall Publ., New York. (1990) p. 379-386.

ZUMFT, W. G.; KRONECK, P. M. H.
Metabolism of nitrous oxide.
In Denitrification in Soil and Sediment. REVSBECH, N. P. R.; SÖRENSEN, J. (eds.) Plenum Press, New York. (1990) p. 37-55.

ZUMFT, W. G.; VIEBROCK, A.; BLÜMLE, S.; BRAUN, C.; JÜNGST, A.
Molecular biology of respiratory nitrate reduction (denitrification) of Pseudomonas.
In Inorganic Nitrogen in Plants and Microorganisms: Uptake and Metabolism. ULLRICH, W. R.; RIGANO, C.; FUGGI, A.; APARICIO, P. J. (eds.) Springer Verlag, Berlin. (1990) p. 320-326.

HEISS, B.; FRUNZKE, K.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Formation of the N-N bond from nitric oxide by a membrane-bound cytochrome bc complex of nitrate-respiring (denitrifying) Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Journal of Bacteriology 171 (1989) p. 3288-3297.   
Abstract

JIN, H.; THOMANN, H; COYLE, C. L.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Copper coordination in nitrous oxide reductase from Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Journal of American Chemical Society 111 (1989) p. 4262-4269.

KÖRNER, H.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Expression of denitrification enzymes in response to the dissolved oxygen level and respiratory substrate in continuous culture of Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 55 (1989) p.1670-1676.    
Abstract

KRONECK, P. M. H.; ANTHOLINE, W. A.; RIESTER, J.; ZUMFT, W. G.
The nature of the cupric site in nitrous oxide reductase and of Cu
A in cytochrome c oxidase.
FEBS Letters 248 (1989) p. 212-213.

RIESTER, J.; ZUMFT, W. G.; KRONECK, P. M. H.
Nitrous oxide reductase from Pseudomonas stutzeri. Redox properties and spectroscopic characterization of different forms of the multicopper protein.
European Journal of Biochemistry 178 (1989) p. 751-762.   
Abstract

SCOTT, R. A.; ZUMFT, W. G.; COYLE, C. L.; DOOLEY, D. M.
Pseudomonas stutzeri N
2O reductase contains CuA-type sites.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 86 (1989) p. 4082-4086.   
Abstract

KRONECK, P. M. H.; ANTHOLINE, W. E.; RIESTER, J.; ZUMFT, W. G.
The cupric site in nitrous oxide reductase contains a mixed-valence [Cu(II), Cu(I)] binuclear center: a multifrequency electron paramagnetic resonance investigation.
FEBS Letters 242 (1988) p. 70-74.   
Abstract

MINAGAWA, N.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Cadmium-copper antagonism in the activation of periplasmic nitrous oxide reductase of copper-deficient cells from Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Biology of Metals 1 (1988) p. 117-122.   
Abstract

SAEKI, K.; WAKABAYASHI, S.; ZUMFT, W. G.; MATSUBARA, H.
Pseudomonas stutzeri ferredoxin: Close similarity to Azotobacter vinelandii and Pseudomonas ovalis ferredoxins.
Journal of Biochemistry (Tokyo) 104 (1988) p. 242-246.   
Abstract

VIEBROCK, A.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Molecular cloning, heterologous expression, and primary structure of the structural gene for the copper enzyme nitrous oxide reductase from denitrifying Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Journal of Bacteriology 170 (1988) p. 4658-4668.   
Abstract

ZUMFT, W. G.; VIEBROCK, A.; KÖRNER, H.
Biochemical and physiological aspects of denitrification.
In The Nitrogen and Sulphur Cycles. COLE, J. A.; FERGUSON, S. J. (eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (1988) p. 245-279.

ZUMFT, W. G.; DÖHLER, K.; KÖRNER, H.; LÖCHEL, S.; VIEBROCK, A.; FRUNZKE, K.
Defects in cytochrome cd1-dependent nitrite respiration of transposon Tn5-induced mutants from Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Archives of Microbiology 149 (1988) p. 492-498. 

DÖHLER, K.; HUSS, V. A. R.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Transfer of Pseudomonas perfectomarina Baumann, Bowditch, Baumann, and Beaman 1983 to Pseudomonas stutzeri (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) Sijderius 1946.
International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 37 (1987) p.1-3.   
Abstract

DOOLEY, D. M.; MOOG, R. S.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Characterization of the copper sites in Pseudomonas perfectomarina nitrous oxide reductase by resonance Raman spectroscopy.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 109 (1987) p. 6730-6735.

KÖRNER, H.; FRUNZKE, K.; DÖHLER, K.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Immunochemical patterns of distribution of nitrous oxide reductase and nitrite reductase (cytochrome cd
1) among denitrifying pseudomonads.
Archives of Microbiology 148 (1987) p. 20-24.   
Abstract

KRÜGER, B.; MEYER, O.; NAGEL, M.; ANDREESEN, J. R.; MEINCKE, M.; BOCK, E.; BLÜMLE, S.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Evidence for the presence of bactopterin in the eubacterial molybdoenzymes nicotinic acid dehydrogenase, nitrite oxidoreductase, and respiratory nitrate reductase.
FEMS Microbiology Letters 48 (1987) p. 225-227.   
Abstract

VIEBROCK, A.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Physical mapping of transposon Tn5 insertions defines a gene cluster functional in nitrous oxide respiration by Pseudomonas stutzeri.
Journal of Bacteriology 169 (1987) p. 4577-4580.   
Abstract

ZUMFT, W. G.; GOTZMANN D. J.; FRUNZKE, K.; VIEBROCK, A.
Novel terminal oxidoreductases of anaerobic respiration (denitrification) from Pseudomonas.
In Inorganic Nitrogen Metabolism. ULLRICH, W. R.; APARICIO, P. J.; SYRETT, P. J.; CASTILLO, F. (eds.) Springer Verlag, Berlin (1987) p. 61-67.

ZUMFT, W. G.; GOTZMANN, D. J.; KRONECK, P. M. H.
Type 1, blue copper proteins constitute a respiratory nitrite-reducing system in Pseudomonas aureofaciens.
European Journal of Biochemistry 168 (1987) p. 301-307.   
Abstract 

COYLE, C. L.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Transition metal-sulfur sites in nitrogenase.
In Iron-Sulfur Protein Research. MATSUBARA, H.; KATSUBE, Y.; WADA, K. (eds.) Japan. Sci. Soc. Press, Tokyo, and Springer Verlag, Berlin (1986) p.185-197.

FRUNZKE, K.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Inhibition of nitrous oxide respiration by nitric oxide in the denitrifying bacterium Pseudomonas perfectomarina.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 852 (1986) p. 119-125.   
Abstract

COYLE, C. L.; ZUMFT, W. G.; KRONECK, P. M. H.; KÖRNER, H.; JAKOB, W.
Nitrous oxide reductase from denitrifying Pseudomonas perfectomarina: Purification and properties of a novel multicopper enzyme.
European Journal of Biochemistry 153 (1985) p. 459-467.   
Abstract

ZUMFT, W. G.
Regulation of nitrogenase activity in the anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria.
In Nitrogen Fixation Research Progress. EVANS, H. J.; BOTTOMLEY, P. J.; NEWTON, W. E. (eds.) Martinus Nijhoff Publ., Dordrecht. (1985) p. 551-557.

ZUMFT, W. G.; COYLE, C. L.; FRUNZKE, K.
The effect of oxygen on chromatographic behavior and properties of nitrous oxide reductase.
FEBS Letters 183 (1985) p. 240-244.

ZUMFT, W. G.; DÖHLER, K.; KÖRNER, H.
Isolation and characterization of transposon Tn5-induced mutants of Pseudomonas perfectomarina defective in nitrous oxide respiration.
Journal of Bacteriology 163 (1985) p. 918-924.   
Abstract

ZUMFT, W. G.; KÖRNER, H.; ARP, D. J.; KLIPP W.; PÜHLER, A.
Nitrogen fixation in the anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria.
In Proceedings 16th FEBS Congress Moscow, part A. OVCHINNIKOV, Y. A. (ed.) VNU Science Press, Utrecht. (1985) p. 411-424.

FRUNZKE, K.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Rapid, single sample analysis of H
2, O2, N2, NO, CO, N2O and CO2 by isothermal gas chromatography: applications to the study of bacterial denitrification.
Journal of Chromatography 299 (1984) p. 477-483.

HASE, T.; WAKABAYASHI, S.; NAKANO, T.; ZUMFT, W. G.; MATSUBARA, H.
Structural homologies between the amino acid sequence of Clostridium pasteurianum MoFe protein and the DNA sequences of nifD and K genes of phylogenetically diverse bacteria.
FEBS Letters 166 (1984) p. 39-43.

MINAMI, Y.; WAKABAYASHI, S.; YAMADA, F.; WADA, K.; ZUMFT, W. G.; MATSUBARA, H.
Ferredoxins from the photosynthetic purple non-sulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris. Isolation and amino acid sequence of ferredoxin I.
Journal of Biochemistry (Tokyo) 96 (1984) p. 585-592. 

ARP, D. J.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Overproduction of nitrogenase in nitrogen-limited cultures of Rhodopseudomonas palustris.
Journal of Bacteriology 153 (1983) p.1322-1330.   
Abstract

ARP, D. J.; ZUMFT, W. G.
L-Methionine-SR-sulfoximine as a probe for the role of glutamine synthetase in nitrogenase switch-off by ammonia and glutamine in Rhodopseudomonas palustris.
Archives of Microbiology 134 (1983) p. 17-22.

ARP, D. J.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Regulation and control of nitrogenase activity.
In Nitrogen Fixation. The Chemical-Biochemical-Genetic Interface. MÜLLER, A.; NEWTON, W. E. (eds.) Plenum Press, New York and London. (1983) p. 149-179.

ZUMFT, W. G.; NEUMANN, S.
Changes in guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) level during nitrogenase expression in the phototrophic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris.
FEBS Letters 154 (1983) p. 121-126. 

MATSUBARA, T.; FRUNZKE, K.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Modulation by copper of the products of nitrite respiration in Pseudomonas perfectomarinus.
Journal of Bacteriology 149 (1982) p. 816-823.   
Abstract

MATSUBARA, T.; ZUMFT, W. G.
Identification of a copper protein as part of the nitrous oxide-reducing system in nitrite-respiring (denitrifying) Pseudomonas.
Archives of Microbiology 132 (1982) p. 322-328.

ZUMFT, W. G.; FRUNZKE, K.
Discrimination of ascorbate-dependent nonenzymatic and enzymatic, membrane-bound reduction of nitric oxide in denitrifying Pseudomonas perfectomarinus.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 681 (1982) p. 459-468.

ZUMFT, W. G.; MATSUBARA, T.
A novel kind of multicopper protein as terminal oxidoreductase of nitrous oxide respiration in Pseudomonas perfectomarinus.
FEBS Letters 148 (1982) p. 107-112.   
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