Sodium deprivation under alkaline conditions causes rapid death of the filamentous cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 608-613

  Schlesinger, Penina ^a   Belkin, Shimshon ^a   Boussiba, Sammy ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

alkaliphilic; cyanobacteria; Na+ H+ antiporter; sodium; Spirulina platensis

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; SPIRULINA PLATENSIS;

EID: 0029793391     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1996.00608.x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Avendaño, M. C., Maeso, E. S., Nieva, M. & Fernández Valiente, E. 1989. Effect of sodium deficiency on the ultrastructure of the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7119. J. Plant Physiol. 135:409-15.
2. Backer, D. W. & Brand, J. J. 1982. An in vivo requirement for calcium in photosystem II of Anacystis nidulans. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 109:1134-9.
3. Belkin, S. & Boussiba, S. 1991. Resistance of Spirulina platensis to ammonia at high pH values. Plant Cell Physiol. 32:953-8.
4. Booth, I. R. 1985. Regulation of cytoplasmic pH in bacteria. Microbiol. Rev. 49:359-78.
5. Boussiba, S. 1989. Ammonium uptake in the alkalophylic cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis. Plant Cell Physiol. 32:303-14.
6. Boussiba, S. & Richmond, A. 1979. Isolation and characterization of phycocyanins from the blue-green alga Spirulina platensis. Arch. Microbiol. 120:155-9.
7. + electrogenic antiporter in an alkaliphilic cyanobacterium Synechocystis. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 128:315-20.
8. Ciferri, O. 1983. Spirulina, the edible microorganism. Microbiol. Rev. 47:551-78.
9. - symport in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus UTEX625. Plant Physiol. 104:1419-28.
10. Fernández-Valiente, E. & Avendaño, M. C. 1993. Sodium-stimulation of phosphate uptake in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7119. Plant Cell Physiol. 34:201-7.
11. Kaplan, A., Schwarz, R., Lieman-Hurwitz, J., Ronen-Tarazi, M. & Reinhold, L. 1994. Physiological and molecular studies on the response of cyanobacteria to changes in the ambient inorganic carbon concentration. In Bryant, A. [Ed.] The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 409-85.
12. Kaplan, A., Volokita, M., Zenvirth, D. & Reinhold, L. 1984. An essential role for sodium in the bicarbonate transporting system of the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis. FEBS 176: 166-8.
13. + content of the medium J. Bacteriol. 152:1096-104.
14. Krulwich, T. A. 1995. Alkaliphiles: 'basic' molecular problems of pH tolerance and bioenergetics. Mol. Microbiol 15:403-10.
15. +-dependent pH homeostasis in an alkalophilic Bacillus. J Biol. Chem. 260:4055-8.
16. Krulwich, T. A. & Guffanti, A. A. 1989. Alkalophilic bacteria. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 43:435-63.
17. Mackinney, G. 1941. Absorption of light by chlorophyll solutions. J. Biol. Chem. 140:315-22.
18. Mehler, A. H. 1951. Studies on reactions of illuminated chloroplasts. I. Mechanisms of the reduction of oxygen and other Hill reagents. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 33:65-77.
19. + requirement for growth, photosynthesis, and pH regulation in the alkalotolerant cyanobacterium Synechococcus leopoliensis. J. Bacteriol. 159:100-6.
20. + in cells. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1185:129-51.
21. Padan, E., Zilberstein, D. & Schuldiner, S. 1981. pH homeostasis in bacteria. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 650:151-66.
22. Rodriguez, R., Lara, C. & Guerrero, M. G. 1992. Nitrate transport in the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans R-2: kinetic and energetic aspects. Biochem. J. 282:639-43.
23. 2 concentration in cyanobacteria. Plant Physiol. 85:585-7.
24. B site of photosystem II in Synechococcus oxygen-evolving preparation. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1102:45-52.
25. Stanier, R. Y. & Cohen-Bazire, G. 1977. Phototrophic prokaryotes: the cyanobacteria. Annu. Rev Microbiol. 31:225-74.
26. Zhao, J. & Brand, J. J. 1988. Sequential effects of sodium depletion on photosystem II in Synechocystis. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 264:657-664.
27. _ 1989. Sequential effects in the photoinhibition of Synechocystis under sodium stress. Plant Physiol. 91:91-100.