denitrification pathway

id: GO:0019333
name: denitrification pathway
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The reduction of nitrate to dinitrogen by four reactions; each intermediate is transformed to the next lower oxidation state; also part of cellular bioenergetics; the nitrogen compounds can serve as terminal acceptors for electron transport phosphorylation in place of oxygen.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0071941nitrogen cycle metabolic process