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@ARTICLE{Meyer:15171,
author = {Meyer, A. and Bergmann, J. and Butterbach-Bahl, K. and
Brüggemann, N.},
title = {{A} new 15{N} tracer method to determine {N} turnover and
denitrification of {P}seudomonas stutzeri},
journal = {Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies},
volume = {46},
issn = {1025-6016},
address = {London [u.a.]},
publisher = {Taylor and Francis},
reportid = {PreJuSER-15171},
pages = {409 - 421},
year = {2010},
note = {This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG) within the Beech Research Group (FOR 788), the
EU-funded integrated project NitroEurope and by the Joint
Helmholtz/Chinese Academy of Sciences Laboratory ENTRANCE.},
abstract = {Although denitrification is one of the key processes of
ecosystem N turnover, the understanding of the regulation of
the denitrification pathway is still limited due to the lack
of feasible methods for the quantification of N₂
formation. Based on the previously developed isotope pairing
method, we present a new in vitro ¹⁵N tracer method for
the quantification of N₂ released from denitrification by
bacterial cultures. The application of the new method was
enabled by replacing the background air in the sample flasks
with a gas mixture of He and O₂ with an approximately
50-fold reduced N₂ background $(1.7\%$ v/v), allowing for
a direct and sensitive quantification of N₂ formation with
isotope-ratio mass spectrometry after ¹⁵N-labelling on
the one hand, but leaving the method relatively insensitive
to intrusion of ambient N₂ on the other hand. The method
was tested on bacterial cultures of Pseudomonas stutzeri
grown at different oxygen levels. Additionally, NO and N₂O
formation were determined with a chemoluminescence analyser
and a gas chromatograph, respectively. Following labelling
with ¹⁵N-ammonium and ¹⁵N-nitrate, it could be shown
that P. stutzeri used ammonium preferably for biomass
build-up, and nitrate preferably as electron acceptor.
Between $84-107\%$ of the total available N could be
recovered. Due to the high sensitivity of the new method
only low levels of ¹⁵N tracer were necessary, minimising
substrate-induced effects and making this method also an
appropriate tool for the use on soil cores. By that it
offers a new method for studying denitrification in
terrestrial ecosystems.},
keywords = {Denitrification / Nitrogen Isotopes: metabolism /
Pseudomonas stutzeri: metabolism / Nitrogen Isotopes (NLM
Chemicals) / J (WoSType)},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
shelfmark = {Chemistry, Inorganic $\&$ Nuclear / Environmental Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:21058101},
UT = {WOS:000285149100002},
doi = {10.1080/10256016.2010.528840},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/15171},
}