Article
Nitric oxide production mediated by nitrate reductase in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: an alternative NO production pathway in photosynthetic organisms.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Mar 2002
Sakihama Yasuko, Nakamura Soichi, Yamasaki Hideo
Abstract excerpt
Biological activity of nitric oxide (NO) production was investigated in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. An NO specific electrode detected a rapid increase in signal when nitrite (NO(2)(-)) was added into a suspension of C. reinhardtii intact cells in the dark. The addition of KCN or the NO quencher bovine hemoglobin completely abolished the signal, verifying that the nitrite-dependent...
Topics
- Animals
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
- Diuron
- Fluorescein
- Models, Molecular
- Mutation
- Nitrate Reductase
- Nitrate Reductases
- Nitric Oxide
- Nitric Oxide Synthase
- Oxygen Consumption
- Photosynthesis
- Potassium Cyanide
- Sodium Nitrite