Article
Methylammonium as a substrate for autotrophic growth by wild type Thiobacillus versutus, and mutant strains with lesions in chemolithotrophic metabolism.
Acta microbiologica Polonica - 1 Jan 1991
Kraczkiewicz-Dowjat A, Kelly D P
Abstract excerpt
Methylammonium consumption and ribulose 1-5-bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBisCO) activity were monitored in cultures of wild type Thiobacillus versutus and mutants deficient in autotrophic metabolism grown under various growth conditions. Only mutants 22, 72, 73 (deficient in ability to oxidize thiosulphate) could grow and develop RuBisCO activity on methylammonium, and assimilate 14CO2 generated as a result of...
Topics
- Kinetics
- Methylamines
- Mutation
- Oxidation-Reduction
- Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase
- Substrate Specificity
- Sucrose
- Thiobacillus
- Thiosulfates
