Ammonium (methylammonium) transport by heterocysts and vegetative cells of Anabaena variabilis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 303-306

  Shehawy, Rehab M ^a   Kleiner, Diethelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonium transport; Anabaena variabilis; Cyanobacterium; Heterocyst

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; METHYLAMMONIUM; NITROGENASE;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; IN VITRO STUDY; ION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; ANABAENA; CULTURE MEDIA; METHYLAMINES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032735476     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00552-2     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Boussiba S., Gibson J. Ammonia translocation in cyanobacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 88:1991;1-14.
2. Kleiner D. Bacterial ammonium transport. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 32:1985;87-100.
3. Buurman E.T., Texeira de Mattos J., Neijssel O.M. Nitrogen-limited behaviour of micro-organisms growing in the presence of large concentrations of ammonium ions. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 58:1989;229-232.
4. -). Arch. Microbiol. 139:1984;245-247.
5. Kuczius T., Kleiner D. Ammonia-excreting mutants of Klebsiella pneumoniae with a pleiotropic defect in nitrogen metabolism. Arch. Microbiol. 166:1997;388-393.
6. Adams D.G., Carr N.G. The developmental biology of heterocyst and akinete formation in cyanobacteria. CRC Crit. Rev. Microbiol. 9:1981;45-109.
7. Sing S., Kashyap A.K., Singh H.N. Developmental regulation of methylammonium (ammonium) transport activity in the cyanobacterium Anabaena doliolum. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 68:1990;163-166.
8. Wolk C.P. Heterocyst formation. Annu. Rev. Genet. 30:1996;59-78.
9. -). FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 60:1989;187-192.
10. Bradley S., Carr N.G. Heterocyst and nitrogenase development in Anabaena cylindrica. J. Gen. Microbiol. 96:1976;175-184.
11. Rippka R., Deruelles J., Waterbury J.B., Herdman M., Stanier R.Y. Generic assignments, strain histories and properties of pure cultures of cyanobacteria. J. Gen. Microbiol. 111:1979;1-61.
12. Golden J.W., Robinson S.J., Haselkorn R. Rearrangement of nitrogen fixation genes during heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena. Nature. 314:1985;419-423.
13. Fay P. Heterocyst isolation. Methods Enzymol. 69:1980;801-812.
14. Porra R.J., Thompson W.A., Kriedemann P.E. Determination of accurate extinction coefficients and simultaneous equations for assaying chlorophylls a and b extracted with four different solvents: verification of the concentration of chlorophyll standards by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 975:1989;384-394.
15. Goa J. A microbiuret method for protein determination. Scand. J. Clin. Lab. Invest. 5:1953;218-222.
16. 2 fixing bacteria - the special case of Rhizobium. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 15:1982;61-63.
17. Neidhardt, F.C. and Umbarger, H.E. (1996) Chemical composition of Escherichia coli. In: Escherichia coli and Salmonella, 2nd edn. (Neidhardt, F.C., Ed.), pp. 13-16, ASM Press, Washington, DC.
18. Rai A.N., Rowell P., Stewart W.D.P. Evidence for an ammonium transport system in free-living and symbiotic cyanobacteria. Arch. Microbiol. 137:1984;241-246.
19. Holtel A., Kleiner D. Regulation of methylammonium transport in Paracoccus denitrificans. Arch. Microbiol. 142:1985;285-288.
20. Montesinos M.L., Muro-Pastor A.M., Herrero A., Flores E. Ammonium/methylammonium permeases of a cyanobacterium. J. Biol. Chem. 273:1998;31463-31470.
21. Durner J., Bohm I., Hilz H., Böger P. Posttranslational modification of nitrogenase. Differences between the purple bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum and the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis. Eur. J. Biochem. 220:1994;125-130.