there is no specific nitrite reductase inhibitor available. Moreover, the dual origin of nitrate and nitrite (from our diet and from endogenous production) presents a vexing obstacle in ...

Another problem is that, in many cases, bacteria degrade pollutants through cometabolism; therefore, another substrate must be added to induce the appropriate degradative enzymes. For example ...

This is a differential medium. It is used to determine if an organism is capable of reducing nitrate (NO 3-) to nitrite (NO 2-) or other nitrogenous compounds via the action of the enzyme nitratase ...