FRUCTOSE UPTAKE AND INFLUENCE ON GROWTH OF AND NITROGEN-FIXATION BY ANABAENA-VARIABILIS
FRUCTOSE UPTAKE AND INFLUENCE ON GROWTH OF AND NITROGEN-FIXATION BY ANABAENA-VARIABILIS
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.147.1.227-235.1981
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
SPILLER, H
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作者:
HAURY, JF;SPILLER, H
Fructose is specifically taken up by N2-fixing cultures of A. variabilis in the light and lowers the doubling time from 24 to 8 h. The kinetics for both fructose-dependent growth and fructose uptake are exponential. The apparent Km for fructose uptake in N2-fixing cultures is 160 .mu.M for cells not previously exposed to fructose and 50 .mu.M in cells adapted to fructose. Picomolar amounts of [14C]fructose are scavenged from the medium and accumulate in filaments. Heterocysts of fructose-adapted filaments accumulate 14C from fructose within 20 min. Short-term experiments with fructose-starved cultures provide evidence that nitrogenase activity, protein and chlorophyll content change within 1 generation time upon addition of fructose. In long-term experiments, the amount of fructose initially present in the medium determines heterocyst number and packed-cell volume. Photosynthetic oxygen evolution and amounts of chlorophyll decrease with exogenous fructose concentrations > 20 mM.