How Biology Handles Nitrite

Nitric oxide: physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology.

Moncada, S., Palmer, R. M., & Higgs, E. A. (1991) · Pharmacological Reviews · doi:10.1016/s0031-6997(25)06663-3 · Cited by 15,525

Analysis of nitrate, nitrite, and [15N]nitrate in biological fluids

Green, L. C., Wagner, D. A., Glogowski, J. A., Skipper, P. L., Wishnok, J. S., & Tannenbaum, S. R. (1982) · Analytical Biochemistry · doi:10.1016/0003-2697(82)90118-x · Cited by 12,061

Hydroperoxide metabolism in mammalian organs.

Chance, B., Sies, H., & Boveris, A. (1979) · Physiological Reviews · doi:10.1152/physrev.1979.59.3.527 · Cited by 5,827

Nitric oxide, superoxide, and peroxynitrite: the good, the bad, and ugly

Beckman, J. S., & Koppenol, W. H. (1996) · American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology · doi:10.1152/ajpcell.1996.271.5.c1424 · Cited by 5,513

Oxygen-Derived Free Radicals in Postischemic Tissue Injury

Epstein, F. H., & McCord, J. M. (1985) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejm198501173120305 · Cited by 5,399

Nitrogen cycles: Past, present, and future

Galloway, J. N., Dentener, F. J., Capone, D. G., Boyer, E. W., Howarth, R. W., Seitzinger, S. P., Asner, G. P., Cleveland, C. C., Green, P. A., Holland, E. A., et al. (2004) · Biogeochemistry · doi:10.1007/s10533-004-0370-0 · Cited by 5,315

Induction of Apoptotic Program in Cell-Free Extracts: Requirement for dATP and Cytochrome c

Liu, X., Kim, C. N., Yang, J., Jemmerson, R., & Wang, X. (1996) · Cell · doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80085-9 · Cited by 5,167

Prevention of Apoptosis by Bcl-2: Release of Cytochrome c from Mitochondria Blocked

Yang, J., Liu, X., Bhalla, K. N., Kim, C. N., Ibrado, A. M., Cai, J., Peng, T.-I., Jones, D. P., & Wang, X. (1997) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.275.5303.1129 · Cited by 4,913

The Release of Cytochrome c from Mitochondria: A Primary Site for Bcl-2 Regulation of Apoptosis

Kluck, R. M., Bossy‐Wetzel, E., Green, D. R., & Newmeyer, D. D. (1997) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.275.5303.1132 · Cited by 4,715

Photoinitiated Reactivity of a Thiolate-Ligated, Spin-Crossover Nonheme {FeNO}7Complex with Dioxygen

McQuilken, A. C., Matsumura, H., Dürr, M., Confer, A. M., Sheckelton, J. P., Siegler, M. A., McQueen, T. M., Ivanović‐Burmazović, I., Moënne‐Loccoz, P., & Goldberg, D. P. (2016) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.5b12741 · Cited by 36

A critical review on the role of structural defects in electrochemical nitrate reduction catalysts: From mechanisms to formation strategies

Gugtapeh, H. S., Aghaii, A. H., & Simchi, A. (2025) · Journal of environmental chemical engineering · doi:10.1016/j.jece.2025.120221 · Cited by 35

LMOF serve as food preservative nanosensor for sensitive detection of nitrite in meat products

Deng, S., Liu, H., Zhang, C., Yang, X., & Blecker, C. S. (2022) · LWT · doi:10.1016/j.lwt.2022.114030 · Cited by 35

Hydrogen Bonding Networks Tune Proton-Coupled Redox Steps during the Enzymatic Six-Electron Conversion of Nitrite to Ammonia

Judd, E. T., Stein, N., Pacheco, A. A., & Elliott, S. J. (2014) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi500854p · Cited by 34

Resolution of Key Roles for the Distal Pocket Histidine in Cytochrome c Nitrite Reductases

Lockwood, C. W. J., Burlat, B., Cheesman, M. R., Kern, M., Simon, J., Clarke, T. A., Richardson, D. J., & Butt, J. N. (2015) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja512941j · Cited by 34

Molecular catalysts for electrocatalytic ammonia oxidation

Li, J., Zhang, F., Xiong, H., Cai, Y., & Zhang, B. (2024) · Science China Chemistry · doi:10.1007/s11426-024-2137-5 · Cited by 33

Nitrite Toxicity in Shrimp Aquaculture: Mechanisms, Health Impacts, and Sustainable Mitigation Strategies

Bian, D., Shi, Y., Zhang, X. J., Liu, X., Jiang, J., Zhu, X., Zhang, D., Liu, Q., Zhu, B., & Tang, B. (2025) · Reviews in Aquaculture · doi:10.1111/raq.70062 · Cited by 33

Nitrogen Oxide Atom-Transfer Redox Chemistry; Mechanism of NO(g) to Nitrite Conversion Utilizing μ-oxo Heme-FeIII–O–CuII(L) Constructs

Hematian, S., Kenkel, I., Shubina, T. E., Dürr, M., Liu, J. J., Siegler, M. A., Ivanović‐Burmazović, I., & Karlin, K. D. (2015) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.5b02174 · Cited by 33

Induction of Enzyme-like Peroxidase Activity in an Iron Porphyrin Complex Using Second Sphere Interactions

Bhakta, S., Nayek, A., Roy, B., & Dey, A. (2019) · Inorganic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02707 · Cited by 33

Evolutionarily conserved core microbiota as an extended trait in nitrogen acquisition strategy of herbaceous species

Cheng, S., Gong, X., Xue, W., Kardol, P., Delgado‐Baquerizo, M., Ling, N., Chen, X., & Liu, M. (2024) · New Phytologist · doi:10.1111/nph.20118 · Cited by 32

Lewis acid-assisted reduction of nitrite to nitric and nitrous oxides via the elusive nitrite radical dianion

Hosseininasab, V., DiMucci, I. M., Ghosh, P., Bertke, J. A., Chandrasekharan, S., Titus, C. J., Nordlund, D. L., Freed, J. H., Lancaster, K. M., & Warren, T. H. (2022) · Nature Chemistry · doi:10.1038/s41557-022-01025-9 · Cited by 31

Structure and nitrite reduction reactivity study of bio-inspired copper( i )–nitro complexes in steric and electronic considerations of tridentate nitrogen ligands

Chang, Y., Lin, Y., Chuang, W., Kao, C., Narwane, M., Chen, H., Chiang, M. Y.-N., & Hsu, S. C. N. (2018) · Dalton Transactions · doi:10.1039/c7dt03843g · Cited by 31

Sulfide and transition metals - A partnership for life

Maiti, B. K., Maia, L. B., & Moura, J. J. G. (2021) · Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry · doi:10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2021.111687 · Cited by 30

Involvement of a Formally Copper(III) Nitrite Complex in Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer and Nitration of Phenols

Bouchey, C. J., & Tolman, W. B. (2022) · Inorganic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03790 · Cited by 30

Thiol and H 2 S-Mediated NO Generation from Nitrate at Copper(II)

Ghosh, P., Stauffer, M., Ahmed, M. E., Bertke, J. A., Staples, R. J., & Warren, T. H. (2023) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.3c00394 · Cited by 30

Visible-Light-Driven Iron-Catalyzed Decarboxylative C–N Coupling Reaction of Alkyl Carboxylic Acids with NaNO 2

Yang, S., Wang, Y. F., Xu, W., Tian, X. Q., Bao, M., & Yu, X. (2023) · Organic Letters · doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.3c03526 · Cited by 30

Colorimetric and fluorogenic detection of nitrite anion in water and food based on Griess reaction of fluorene derivatives

Hoysrijan, B., & Sirikulkajorn, A. (2022) · Journal of Food Composition and Analysis · doi:10.1016/j.jfca.2022.105123 · Cited by 29

Sulfur vacancy MoS2 for electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate to ammonia with enhanced selectivity

Wang, J., Sun, Z., Li, Y., Guo, L., Wang, Y., Fan, C., Wang, Y., Li, R., Zhang, X., Li, F., et al. (2023) · Journal of Alloys and Compounds · doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.170199 · Cited by 29

Revealing the size effect mechanisms of micro(nano)plastics on nitrogen removal performance of constructed wetland

Zhao, Y., Hu, Z., Hao, Z., Xie, H., Liu, D., Yan, P., Xu, H., Wu, H., & Zhang, J. (2024) · Journal of Hazardous Materials · doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.136409 · Cited by 28

Myoglobinopathy is an adult-onset autosomal dominant myopathy with characteristic sarcoplasmic inclusions

Olivé, M., Engvall, M., Ravenscroft, G., Cabrera‐Serrano, M., Jiao, H., Bortolotti, C. A., Pignataro, M., Lambrughi, M., Jiang, H., Forrest, A. R. R., et al. (2019) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09111-2 · Cited by 28

Mechanism of O-Atom Transfer from Nitrite: Nitric Oxide Release at Copper(II)

Stauffer, M., Sakhaei, Z., Greene, C., Ghosh, P., Bertke, J. A., & Warren, T. H. (2021) · Inorganic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00625 · Cited by 28

Second Sphere Interactions in Amyloidogenic Diseases

Roy, M., Nath, A. K., Pal, I., & Dey, S. G. (2022) · Chemical Reviews · doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00941 · Cited by 29

NO Generation from Nitrite at Zinc(II): Role of Thiol Persulfidation in the Presence of Sulfane Sulfur

Sahana, T., Valappil, A. K., Amma, A. S. P. R., & Kundu, S. (2023) · ACS Organic & Inorganic Au · doi:10.1021/acsorginorgau.3c00004 · Cited by 28

Directional Electron Transfer in Enzymatic Nano‐Bio Hybrids for Selective Photobiocatalytic Conversion of Nitrate

Bian, J., An, X., Zhao, J., Liao, Y., Lan, X., Liu, R., Hu, C., Chen, J., Liu, H., & Qu, J. (2024) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202412194 · Cited by 27

Atomic-scale evidence for highly selective electrocatalytic N−N coupling on metallic MoS 2

He, D., Ooka, H., Kim, Y., Li, Y., Jin, F., Kim, S. H., & Nakamura, R. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2008429117 · Cited by 27

Photocatalytic Reduction of Aqueous Nitrate with Hybrid Ag/g‑C3N4 under Ultraviolet and Visible Light

Varapragasam, S. J. P., Andriolo, J. M., Skinner, J. L., & Grumstrup, E. M. (2021) · ACS Omega · doi:10.1021/acsomega.1c05523 · Cited by 27

Nitrate and Nitrite Reductions at Copper(II) Sites: Role of Noncovalent Interactions from Second-Coordination-Sphere

Mondal, A., Reddy, K. P., Som, S., Chopra, D., & Kundu, S. (2022) · Inorganic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02775 · Cited by 27

Reduction of nitrite to NO at a mononuclear copper(II)-phenolate site

Maria, S., Chattopadhyay, T., Ananya, S., & Kundu, S. (2020) · Inorganica Chimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.ica.2020.119515 · Cited by 27

The role of porphyrin peripheral substituents in determining the reactivities of ferrous nitrosyl species

Amanullah, S., & Dey, A. (2020) · Chemical Science · doi:10.1039/d0sc01625j · Cited by 26

Physiological Roles of Nitrite and Nitric Oxide in Bacteria: Similar Consequences from Distinct Cell Targets, Protection, and Sensing Systems

Guo, K., & Gao, H. (2021) · Advanced Biology · doi:10.1002/adbi.202100773 · Cited by 26

Functional interactions between nitrite reductase and nitric oxide reductase from Paracoccus denitrificans

Albertsson, I., Sjöholm, J., ter Beek, J., Watmough, N. J., Widengren, J., & Ädelroth, P. (2019) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-019-53553-z · Cited by 25

Changes in soil prokaryotic communities and nitrogen cycling functions along a groundwater table drawdown gradient in desert wetlands

Wang, K., Pan, R., Fei, H., Tong, Q., & Han, F. (2022) · The Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156868 · Cited by 25

Technical Evaluation of a Paper-Based Electrochemical Strip to Measure Nitrite Ions in the Forensic Field

Raucci, A., Miglione, A., Cimmino, W., Cioffi, A., Singh, S., Spinelli, M., Amoresano, A., Musile, G., & Cinti, S. (2023) · ACS Measurement Science Au · doi:10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.3c00050 · Cited by 25

Molecular Underpinnings of Nitrite Effect on CymA-Dependent Respiration in Shewanella oneidensis

Jin, M., Fu, H., Yin, J., Yuan, J., & Gao, H. (2016) · Frontiers in Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01154 · Cited by 25

Influence of pyridine-like ligands on the structure, photochemical and biological properties of nitro-nitrosyl ruthenium complexes

Коstin, G. А., Mikhailov, A. A., Kuratieva, N. V., Pishchur, D. P., Zharkov, D. O., & Грин, И. Р. (2017) · New Journal of Chemistry · doi:10.1039/c7nj01602f · Cited by 25

Conversion of NO x 1− ( x = 2, 3) to NO using an oxygen-deficient polyoxovanadate–alkoxide cluster

Petel, B. E., & Matson, E. M. (2019) · Chemical Communications · doi:10.1039/c9cc08230a · Cited by 25

Nitrite Dismutase Reaction Mechanism: Kinetic and Spectroscopic Investigation of the Interaction between Nitrophorin and Nitrite

He, C., Howes, B. D., Smulevich, G., Rumpel, S., Reijerse, E. J., Lubitz, W., Cox, N. J., & Knipp, M. (2015) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja512938u · Cited by 25

Nitrite and Nitric Oxide Interconversion at Mononuclear Copper(II): Insight into the Role of the Red Copper Site in Denitrification

Anju, B. S., Nair, N., & Kundu, S. (2023) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202311523 · Cited by 24

Nitric oxide and its circulating NOx metabolites, their role in human body functioning and cardiovascular death risk prediction (part I)

Gumanova, N. G. (2021) · Russian Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.17116/profmed202124091102 · Cited by 23

Nitric oxide generation study of unsymmetrical β-diketiminato copper( ii ) nitrite complexes

Chand, K., Chu, Y.-C., Wang, T.-W., Kao, C., Lin, Y., Tsai, M.-H., & Hsu, S. C. N. (2022) · Dalton Transactions · doi:10.1039/d1dt03711k · Cited by 23

Bioelectro-barriers prevent nitrate leaching into groundwater via nitrogen retention

Wan, Y., Li, R., Yao, K., Peng, C., Wang, W., Li, N., & Wang, X. (2023) · Water Research · doi:10.1016/j.watres.2023.120988 · Cited by 23

Cytochromes c Constitute a Layer of Protection against Nitric Oxide but Not Nitrite

Meng, Q., Sun, Y., & Gao, H. (2018) · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · doi:10.1128/aem.01255-18 · Cited by 23

Synthetic Iron Porphyrins for Probing the Differences in the Electronic Structures of Heme a3, Heme d, and Heme d1

Amanullah, S., Saha, P., Saha, R., & Dey, A. (2018) · Inorganic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02063 · Cited by 23

A recently evolved diflavin-containing monomeric nitrate reductase is responsible for highly efficient bacterial nitrate assimilation

Tan, W. L., Liao, T., Wang, J., Ye, Y., Wei, Y., Zhou, H., Xiao, Y., Zhi, X., Shao, Z., Lyu, L.-D., et al. (2020) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.ra120.012859 · Cited by 23

Nature's nitrite-to-ammonia expressway, with no stop at dinitrogen

Kroneck, P. M. H. (2021) · JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · doi:10.1007/s00775-021-01921-4 · Cited by 22

Recent developments in the synthesis of bio-inspired iron porphyrins for small molecule activation

Amanullah, S., Saha, P., & Dey, A. (2022) · Chemical Communications · doi:10.1039/d2cc00430e · Cited by 22

Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of NO to NH3 by Iron Porphyrins at Physiologically Relevant Potentials

Saha, P., Barman, S., Amanullah, S., & Dey, A. (2023) · ACS Catalysis · doi:10.1021/acscatal.3c02672 · Cited by 22

Distal Histidine Modulates the Unusual O-Binding of Nitrite to Myoglobin: Evidence from the Quantum Chemical Analysis of EPR Parameters

Sundararajan, M., & Neese, F. (2015) · Inorganic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00557 · Cited by 22

Salinity and Heavy Metal Tolerance, and Phytoextraction Potential of Ranunculus sceleratus Plants from a Sandy Coastal Beach

Ievinsh, G., Landorfa-Svalbe, Z., Andersone-Ozola, U., Karlsons, A., & Osvalde, A. (2022) · Life · doi:10.3390/life12121959 · Cited by 22

Electrostatic versus Hydrogen Bonding Control of Selectivity in CO 2 Reduction by Iron Porphyrins

Ghosh, S., Patra, S., Bisoi, A., Ghosh, S., Maurya, N., Das, A., Singh, P. C., & Dey, A. (2025) · ACS Catalysis · doi:10.1021/acscatal.5c00170 · Cited by 21

NO Generation from the Cross-Talks between Ene-diol Antioxidants and Nitrite at Metal Sites

Gupta, S., Vijayan, S., Bertke, J. A., & Kundu, S. (2022) · Inorganic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00364 · Cited by 21

Nitrogen fertilization and irrigation types do not affect the overall N2O production potential of a sandy soil, but the microbial community structure and the quantity of functional genes related to the N cycle

Storch, L. C., Schulz, K., Rißmann, C., Cerull, E., Plakias, A., Schlichting, I., Prochnow, A., Rueß, L., Trost, B., & Theuerl, S. (2023) · Applied Soil Ecology · doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.105083 · Cited by 21

Genome Analysis of a Marine Bacterium Halomonas sp. and Its Role in Nitrate Reduction under the Influence of Photoelectrons

Liu, Y., Ding, H., Sun, Y., Li, Y., & Lu, A. (2020) · Microorganisms · doi:10.3390/microorganisms8101529 · Cited by 21

Catalytic pathways for efficient ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion towards a sustainable energy future

Usman, M., Ali, A., Yamani, Z. H., & Shaikh, M. N. (2024) · Sustainable Energy & Fuels · doi:10.1039/d4se01029a · Cited by 20

Function and distribution of nitrogen-cycling microbial communities in the Napahai plateau wetland

Li, Y., Xiong, L., Yu, H., Zeng, K., Wei, Y., Li, H., Zeng, W., & Ji, X. (2023) · Archives of Microbiology · doi:10.1007/s00203-023-03695-6 · Cited by 20

Get to Know NO

Ghosh, P., & Warren, T. H. (2024) · Nature Chemistry · doi:10.1038/s41557-024-01606-w · Cited by 20

Reduction of Nitrite in an Iron(II)-Nitrito Compound by Thiols and Selenol Produces Dinitrosyl Iron Complexes via an {FeNO}7 Intermediate

Karmakar, S., Patra, S., Halder, R., Karmakar, S., & Majumdar, A. (2024) · Inorganic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03555 · Cited by 20

Nitrite modulates aminoglycoside tolerance by inhibiting cytochrome heme-copper oxidase in bacteria

Zhang, Y., Guo, K., Meng, Q., & Gao, H. (2020) · Communications Biology · doi:10.1038/s42003-020-0991-4 · Cited by 20

NO Coupling at Copper to cis-Hyponitrite: N2O Formation via Protonation and H-Atom Transfer

Ghosh, P., Stauffer, M., Hosseininasab, V., Kundu, S., Bertke, J. A., Cundari, T. R., & Warren, T. H. (2022) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.2c04033 · Cited by 19

NOx Linkage Isomerization in Metal Complexes

Awasabisah, D., & Richter-Addo, G. B. (2014) · Advances in inorganic chemistry · doi:10.1016/bs.adioch.2014.11.003 · Cited by 19

A simple fluorescence sensor for the detection of nitrite (NO 2 − ) in real samples using water-dispersible graphite-like carbon nitride (w-g-C 3 N 4 ) nanomaterials

Chen, J., Ma, Q., Caihe, W., Hu, X., Gao, Y., Wang, H., Qin, D., & Lu, X. (2017) · New Journal of Chemistry · doi:10.1039/c7nj01446e · Cited by 19

Reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide and generation of reactive chalcogen species by mononuclear Fe( ii ) and Zn( ii ) complexes of thiolate and selenolate

Atta, S., Mandal, A., Saha, R., & Majumdar, A. (2023) · Dalton Transactions · doi:10.1039/d3dt03768a · Cited by 18

Electrochemical Synthesis of Urea: Co‐Reduction of Nitrite and Carbon Dioxide on Binuclear Cobalt Phthalocyanine

Zhang, R., Hu, W., Liu, J., Xu, K., Liu, Y., Yao, Y., Liu, M., Zhang, X., Li, H., He, P., et al. (2024) · Small · doi:10.1002/smll.202403285 · Cited by 18

Resonance Raman detection of the myoglobin nitrito heme Fe–O–NO/2-nitrovinyl species: implications for helix E-helix F interactions

Lambrou, A., & Pinakoulaki, E. (2014) · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · doi:10.1039/c4cp04352a · Cited by 18

Nitrosyl Myoglobins and Their Nitrite Precursors: Crystal Structural and Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Mechanics Theoretical Investigations of Preferred Fe–NO Ligand Orientations in Myoglobin Distal Pockets

Wang, B., Shi, Y., Tejero, J., Powell, S. M., Thomas, L. M., Gladwin, M. T., Shiva, S., Zhang, Y., & Richter-Addo, G. B. (2018) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00542 · Cited by 18

Nitrate–Nitrite Interplay in the Nitrogen Biocycle

Maiti, B. K., Moura, I., & Moura, J. J. G. (2025) · Molecules · doi:10.3390/molecules30143023 · Cited by 17

Accurate non-covalent interaction energies on noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers via second-order symmetry-adapted perturbation theory

Loipersberger, M., Malone, F. D., Welden, A. R., Parrish, R. M., Fox, T., Degroote, M., Kyoseva, E. S., Moll, N., Santagati, R., & Streif, M. (2023) · Chemical Science · doi:10.1039/d2sc05896k · Cited by 17

Heme oxygenase-1, carbon monoxide, and malaria – The interplay of chemistry and biology

Pena, A. C., & Pamplona, A. (2021) · Coordination Chemistry Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214285 · Cited by 17

Detection of Nitric Oxide by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Spin-Trapping with Iron-Dithiocarbamates

Maia, L. B., & Moura, J. J. G. (2016) · Methods in molecular biology · doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-3600-7_8 · Cited by 17

NapB in excess inhibits growth of Shewanella oneidensis by dissipating electrons of the quinol pool

Jin, M., Zhang, Q., Sun, Y., & Gao, H. (2016) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/srep37456 · Cited by 17

Complete genome sequence of a nitrate reducing bacteria, Algoriphagus sp. Y33 isolated from the water of the Indian Ocean

Liu, W., Fan, Y., He, P., & Chen, H. (2021) · Marine Genomics · doi:10.1016/j.margen.2021.100861 · Cited by 16

Effects of Weak Electric Fields on the Denitrification Performance of Pseudomonas stutzeri: Insights into Enzymes and Metabolic Pathways

Zhu, X.-Y., Lin, F., Sun, J., Li, X., Zhu, G., Lu, Y., Sun, L., & Wang, H. (2024) · Microorganisms · doi:10.3390/microorganisms12061218 · Cited by 16

Surface‐like NOx Reduction at an Atomically‐Precise Tricopper Cluster

Beamer, A. W., & Buss, J. A. (2025) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202424772 · Cited by 16

Designing the Molybdopterin Core through Regioselective Coupling of Building Blocks

Pimkov, I. V., Serli‐Mitasev, B., Peterson, A. A., Ratvasky, S. C., Hammann, B., & Basu, P. (2015) · Chemistry - A European Journal · doi:10.1002/chem.201502845 · Cited by 16

Complete denitrification of nitrate and nitrite to N 2 gas by samarium( ii ) iodide

Marks, W. R., Baumgardner, D. F., Reinheimer, E. W., & Gilbertson, J. D. (2020) · Chemical Communications · doi:10.1039/d0cc04115g · Cited by 16

An investigation on catalytic nitrite reduction reaction by bioinspired Cu II complexes

Chang, Y., Chen, H., Chen, S., Kao, C., Chiang, M. Y.-N., & Hsu, S. C. N. (2022) · Dalton Transactions · doi:10.1039/d1dt04102a · Cited by 16

Nitric Oxide Detection Using Electrochemical Third‐generation Biosensors – Based on Heme Proteins and Porphyrins

Gomes, F., Maia, L. B., Cordas, C. M., Delerue-Matos, C. M., Moura, I., Moura, J. J. G., & Morais, S. (2018) · Electroanalysis · doi:10.1002/elan.201800421 · Cited by 16

Influencing factors on nitrite removal by bagasse bioflocs and the succession of attached microbial communities

Chen, C., Wang, F., Ren, Z., Wang, X., & Shan, H. (2024) · Journal of Water Process Engineering · doi:10.1016/j.jwpe.2024.105057 · Cited by 15

Role of ancillary ligands in S -nitrosothiol and NO generation from nitrite–thiol interactions at mononuclear zinc( ii ) sites

Anju, B. S., Nair, N., Rajput, J., Bertke, J. A., Mondal, B., & Kundu, S. (2024) · Chemical Science · doi:10.1039/d4sc04853a · Cited by 15

Reversible Interconversion of Nitrate and Nitrite Catalyzed by Periplasmic Nitrate Reductase from Campylobacter jejuni

Giri, N. C., Wedasingha, L., Manicke, N. E., Szaleniec, M., & Basu, P. (2025) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.4c17874 · Cited by 15

Thiocarboxylate and Acid Chloride Mediated Generation of Nitric Oxide from a Dinickel(II)-Bis(ONO) Complex Involving the Formation of Perthionitrite and O-Nitrosyl Carboxylate

Hossain, M. K., Basak, A., & Majumdar, A. (2025) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.5c01529 · Cited by 15

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