Yakunin A F, Hallenbeck P C
Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada.
J Bacteriol. 1998 Dec;180(23):6392-5. doi: 10.1128/JB.180.23.6392-6395.1998.
The photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus has been shown to carry out nitrogenase "switch-off," a rapid, reversible inhibition of in vivo activity. Here, we demonstrate that highly nitrogen-limited cultures of both the wild-type strain and a draT draG mutant are capable of nitrogenase switch-off while moderately nitrogen-limited cultures show instead a "magnitude" response, with a decrease in in vivo nitrogenase activity that is proportional to the amount of added NH4+.
光合细菌荚膜红细菌已被证明能进行固氮酶“关闭”,即对体内活性进行快速、可逆的抑制。在此,我们证明野生型菌株和draT draG突变体的高度氮限制培养物都能够进行固氮酶关闭,而中度氮限制培养物则表现出“量值”反应,体内固氮酶活性的降低与添加的NH4+量成比例。