| Institution: | (1) Departamento de Química y CC.MM (Area de Bioquímica), Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Campus El Carmen, Universidad de Huelva, 21017 Huelva, Spain;(2) Departamento de Bioquímica Vegetal y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Sevilla, c/ Profesor García González 1, Sevilla, 41071, Spain |
| Abstract: | Immobilization of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in alginate increases its photorespiration rate. In the immobilized cells, the photorespiratory enzyme, phosphoglycolate phosphatase, was 75% higher than in freely suspended cells. Thus, the immobilized cells produced glycolate at twice the rate than in freely suspended cells when treated with aminooxyacetate (a transaminase inhibitor). With immobilized cells in a batch reactor, 270  mol glycolatemg–1 Chl was produced after 12h.Revisions requested 27 October 2004; Revisions received 13 December 2004 |
