Bacterial nitrite oxidizer
AssigneeAquaria, Inc.
InventorTimothy A. Hovanec
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Abstract
The present invention provides an isolated bacterial strain capable of oxidizing nitrite to nitrate and a method of use thereof for preventing or alleviating the accumulation of nitrite in an aqueous medium.
Claims16
An isolated bacterial strain that oxidizes nitrite to nitrate, comprising a nucleotide sequence that has greater than 96.1% identity to the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 1 over the full length thereof.
A biologically pure culture of a bacterial strain that oxidizes nitrite to nitrate, wherein the 16S rDNA of the bacterial strain has the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1.
A composition comprising an isolated bacterial strain that oxidizes nitrite to nitrate, wherein said bacterial strain comprises the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1.
A composition comprising a concentrated bacterial strain that oxidizes nitrite to nitrate, wherein the 16S rDNA of the bacterial strain has a nucleotide sequence that has greater than 96.1% identity to the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1 over the full lenght thereof.
An isolated nucleic acid comprising the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, or a variant with greater than 96.1% identity with SEQ ID NO:1 over the full lenght thereof.
An oligonucleotide probe selected from the group consisting of 5′-CACCGGGAATTCCGCGCTCCTC-3′ (SEQ ID NO:2) and 5′-TCCATCTTCCCTCCCGAAAA-3′ (SEQ ID NO:3).
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