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SUMMARY: is capable of carrying out assimilatory and dissimilatory nitrate reduction, though only the assimilatory process occurs under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Aeration affects the dissimilatory activity (reduction of nitrate to nitrogen) of a growing culture in at least three ways: () it prevents the adaptive formation of the system, () it partially represses any further synthesis if the system is already present, and () it inhibits the activity of the preformed system completely. To some extent these effects of oxygen are reflected in the control which it exerts upon the organism’s content of nitrate reductase (the enzyme responsible for the initial reduction of nitrate to nitrite) and upon its activity during growth.

Ammonium ions partially inhibit the transformation of nitrate into cell nitrogen but have no detectable effect on the nitrate reductase activity of crude extracts of this organism.

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