Evidence for the presence of the reductive pentose phosphate cycle in a filamentous anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium, Oscillochloris trichoides strain DG-6
Evidence for the presence of the reductive pentose phosphate cycle in a filamentous anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium, Oscillochloris trichoides strain DG-6
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10.1099/13500872-145-7-1743
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1999-07-01
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Zyakun, AM
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Ivanovsky, RN;Fal, YI;Zyakun, AM
Studies on autotrophic CO2 fixation by the filamentous anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium Oscillochloris trichoides strain DG-6 demonstrated that, unlike other green bacteria, this organism metabolized CO2 via the reductive pentose phosphate cycle. Both key enzymes of this cycle - ribulose1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase and phosphoribulokinase - were detected in cell extracts. The main product of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate-dependent CO, fixation was 3-phosphoglyceric acid. KCN, which is known to be a competitive inhibitor of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, completely inhibited the CO2 assimilation by whole cells as well as by cell extracts of O. trichoides. The C-13/C-12 carbon isotope fractionation during photoautotrophic growth of O. trichoides was -19.7%, which is close to that obtained for autotrophic organisms that use ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase as the primary carboxylation enzyme. Cell extracts of O. trichoides contained all the enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle except I-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase. No activity of isocitrate lyase, a key enzyme of the glyoxylate shunt, was found in cell extracts of O. trichoides DG-6.