NO3- nutrition and salt tolerance in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 and mutant strains

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 991-998

  Rai, A K ^a   Tiwari, S P ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; NITRATES; SODIUM; TOXICITY;

ANABAENA SP; CELLULARS; CYANOBACTERIUM ANABAENA; MUTANT STRAIN; NACL CONCENTRATION; NITRATE ASSIMILATION; SALINE MEDIA; SALT TOLERANCE; SODIUM TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT SYSTEMS;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE; ION TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SODIUM CELL LEVEL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

ANABAENA;

ANABAENA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CULTURE MEDIA; NITRATES; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 0032586920     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2672.1999.00788.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Allen, M.B. and Arnon, D.I. (1955a) Studies on nitrogen-fixing blue-green algae. I. The sodium requirement of Anabaena cylindrica. Plant Physiology 8, 653 660.
2. Allen, M.B. and Arnon, D.I. (1955b) Studies on nitrogen-fixing blue-green algae. II. Growth and nitrogen fixation by Anabaena cylindrica Lemm. Plant Physiology 30, 366 372.
3. +) in cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation and adaptation to salinity and osmotic stress. Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics 31, 267 279.
4. Apte, S.K., Reddy, B.R. and Thomas, J. (1987) Relationship between sodium influx and salt tolerance of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 53, 1939 1943.
5. Apte, S.K. and Thomas, J. (1980) Sodium is required for nitrogenase activity in cyanobacteria. Current Microbiology 3, 291 293.
6. Apte, S.K. and Thomas, J. (1984) Effect of sodium on nitrogen fixation m Anabaena torulosa and Plectonema boryanum. Journal of General Microbiology 130, 1161-1168.
7. Apte, S.K. and Thomas, J. (1985) Effect of sodium on membrane potential, uptake of phosphate, nucleoside phosphate pool and synthesis and expression of nitrogenase in Anabaena torulosa. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 23, 518-522.
8. Batterton, J.C. and van Baalen, C. (1971) Growth response of blue green algae to sodium chloride concentration. Archives of Microbiology 76, 151-156.
9. Castenholz, R.W. (1988) Culturing methods for cyanobacteria. Methods in Enzymology 167, 68 93.
10. Elhai, J. and Wolk, C.P. (1988) Conjugal transfer of DNA to cyanobacteria. Methods in Enzymology 167, 747-754.
11. Ernst, A., Black, T., Cai, Y., Panoff, J.M., Tiwari, D.N. and Wolk, C.P. (1992) Synthesis of nitrogenase in mutants of the cyanobacterium Anabaena affected in heterocyst development or metabolism. Journal of Bacteriology 174, 6025 6032.
12. Guillard, R.R.L. (1973) Division rates. In Handbook of Phycological Methods: Culture Methods and Growth Measurements ed. Stein, J.R. pp. 289-311. London: Cambridge University Press.
13. Hagemann, M. and Erdmann, N. (1997) Environment stresses. In Cyanobacterial Nitrogen Metabolism and Environmental Biotechnology ed. Rai, A.K. pp. 155-201. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
14. Lowry, O.H., Rosebrough, N.J., Farr, A.L. and Randall, R.J. (1951) Protein measurement with folin phenol reagent. Journal of Biological Chemistry 193, 265-275.
15. Maniatis, T., Fritsch, E.F. And Sambrook, J. (1982) Molecular Cloning: a Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
16. Molitor, V., Trnka, M., Erber, W. et al. (1990) Impact of salt adaptation on esterified fatty acids and cytochrome oxidase in plasma and thylakoid membranes from the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans. Archives of Microbiology 154, 112 119.
17. Pescheck, G.A., Obinger, C., Fromwald, S. and Bergman, B. (1994) Correlation between immuno-gold labels and activities of the cytochrome-c-oxidase (aa3-type) in membranes of salt stressed cyanobacteria. FEMS Microbiology Letters 124, 431-438.
18. Rai, A.K. and Abraham, G. (1993) Salinity tolerance and growth analysis of the cyanobacterium Anabaena doliolum. Bulletin Journal of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 51, 724-731.
19. Rai, A.K. and Abraham, G. (1995) Relationship of combined nitrogen sources to salt tolerance in freshwater cyanobacterium Anabaena doliolum. Journal of Applied Bacteriology 78, 501-505.
20. Reddy, B.R., Apte, S.K. and Thomas, J. (1989) Enhancement of cyanobacterial salt tolerance by combined nitrogen. Plant Physiology 89, 204 210.
21. Reed, R.H. and Stewart, W.D.P. (1988) The responses of cyanobacteria to salt stress. In Biochemistry of the Algae and Cyanobacteria ed. Rogers, L.J. and Gallon, J.R. pp. 217-223, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
22. + permeability. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 814, 347 355.
23. Singh, R.N. (1950) Reclamation of Usar lands in India through blue-green algae. Nature 165, 325 326.
24. Thomas, J. and Apte, S.K. (1984) Sodium requirement and metabolism in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. Journal of Biosciences 6, 771-794.
25. Thomas, J., Apte, S.K. and Reddy, B.R. (1988) Sodium metabolism in cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation and salt tolerance. In Nitrogen Fixation: Hundred Years After ed. Bothe, H., de Bruijn, F.J. and Newton, W.E. pp. 195-120. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer-Verlag.
26. Tiwari, S.P. (1997) Regulation of Nitrate Assimilation in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. PhD Thesis, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
27. Volk, S.L. and Phinney, H.K. (1968) Mineral requirements for the growth of Anabaena spiroides in vitro. Canadian Journal of Botany 46, 619-630.
28. Wolk, C.P. (1973) Physiology and cytological chemistry of blue green algae. Bacteriological Review 37, 32 101.