The effect of respiration on the phototactic behavior of the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodospirillum centenum.

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The effect of respiration on the positive phototactic movement of swarming agar colonies of the facultative phototroph Rhodospirillum centenum was studied. When the electron flow was blocked at the bc1 complex level by myxothiazol, the oriented movement of the colonies was totally blocked. Conversely, inhibition of respiration via the cytochrome c oxidase stimulated the phototactic response. No phototaxis was...

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