Inorganic Carbon-Stimulated O2 Photoreduction Is Suppressed by NO2- Assimilation in Air-Grown Cells of Synechococcus UTEX 625.
AUTOR(ES)
Mir, N. A.
RESUMO
The effect of NO2- assimilation on O2 exchange and CO2 fixation of the cyanobacterium, Synechococcus UTEX 625, was studied mass spectrometrically. Upon addition of 1 mM inorganic carbon to the medium, inorganic carbon pools developed and accelerated O2 photoreduction 5-fold when CO2 fixation was inhibited. During steady-state photosynthesis at saturating light, O2 uptake represented 32% of O2 evolution and balanced that portion of O2 evolution that could not be accounted for by CO2 fixation. Under these conditions, NO2- assimilation reduced O2 uptake by 59% but had no influence on CO2 fixation. NO2- assimilation decreased both CO2 fixation and O2 photoreduction at low light and and increased net O2 evolution at all light intensities. The increase in net O2 evolution observed during simultaneous assimilation of carbon and nitrogen over carbon alone was due to a suppression of O2 photoreduction by NO2- assimilation. When CO2 fixation was precluded, NO2- assimilation inhibited O2 photoreduction and stimulated O2 evolution. When the electron supply was limiting (low light), competition among O2, CO2, and NO2- for electrons could be observed, but when the electron supply was not limiting (saturating light), O2 photoreduction and/or NO2- reduction caused electron transport that was additive to that for maximum CO2 fixation.
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