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  4. Organic acid utilization, succinate excretion, encystation and oscillating nitrogenase activity in azospirillum brasilense under microaerobic conditions
 
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1982
Journal Article
Title

Organic acid utilization, succinate excretion, encystation and oscillating nitrogenase activity in azospirillum brasilense under microaerobic conditions

Abstract
Oscillating nitrogenase activity in long lasting batch cultures of Azospirillum brasilense ATCC 29145 is independent of the carbon source malate. With fumarate, succinate or pyruvate as sole carbon source nitrogenase activity is also oscillating. Cultivation in a medium with 20-fold the buffer concentration also results in oscillating nitrogenase activity. Nitrogen-fixing cultures of Azospirillum brasilense ATCC 29145 excrete ammonia into the culture medium varying between 0.02 and 0.04 mM concentrations. This is not sufficient to cause a drop of nitrogenase activity in Azospirillum brasilense after the first maximum. During growth under nitrogen-fixing conditions with malate as carbon source, the cells excrete significant quantities of succinate into the culture medium. Cultures with only 0.05% malate reutilized the excreted succinate as soon as malate disappeared from the medium. Azospirillum brasilense ATCC 29145 is shown to have the capability of encystation. Encysted cells are dif ferent from vegetative cells in their resistance to desiccation, by the spherical shape and by immotility. The results indicate that oscillating nitrogenase activity in long lasting cultures reflects the development from vegetative cells to cysts and again to vegetative cells under microaerobic conditions. (IFU)
Author(s)
Papen, H.
Werner, D.
Journal
Archives of microbiology  
Language
English
IFU  
Keyword(s)
  • azospirillum brasilense

  • encystation

  • nitrogenase activity

  • organic acid utilization

  • oscillation

  • succinate excretion

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