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Mixotrophic Growth of Hydrogenomonas eutropha   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
Mixotrophic growth conditions were established by the addition of lactate to cultures of Hydrogenomonas eutropha growing autotrophically in a gaseous environment of H(2), O(2), and CO(2) (6:2:1). The specific growth rate of mixotrophic cultures was double that of the autotrophic cultures, and lactate disappearance paralleled growth. Growth yields in mixotrophic cultures were significantly greater than those in heterotrophic cultures for equal quantities of lactate consumed. The magnitude of the increase in yield was directly proportional to the absolute growth rate at the time of lactate addition to the starting autotrophic culture and to the time under mixotrophic conditions. The specific activities of hydrogenase and ribulose diphosphate carboxylase decreased during mixotrophic growth; the total activities increased somewhat. The results suggested that the complete autotrophic and heterotrophic physiologies functioned simultaneously under mixotrophic contions.  相似文献   

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Protein Quality of the Bacterium Hydrogenomonas eutropha   总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0       下载免费PDF全文
Hydrogenomonas eutropha cells harvested from semicontinuous autotrophic culture and washed free of substrate contain about 13% of nitrogen on a dry-solids basis. Biological value and digestibility of the bacterial nitrogen were determined in the rat by use of an abbreviated Mitchell-Thomas nitrogen balance technique and casein as the standard protein. Casein nitrogen was 99% digestible, and that of both whole boiled and sonically ruptured bacterial cells was 93%. Biological value of casein and the bacterial preparations was uniformly 77%. Amino acid composition of the bacteria, as in the case of casein, indicates a first limitation of sulfur-containing amino acids. These compositional features suggest that H. eutropha may be potentially valuable as a protein supplement in animal feeds.  相似文献   

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Carbon dioxide and oxygen concentrations have a profound effect on the lag period of chemoautotrophically grown Hydrogenomonas eutropha. Minimum lag periods and high growth rates were obtained in shaken flask cultures with a prepared gas mixture containing 70% H(2), 20% O(2), and 10% CO(2). However, excessively long lag periods resulted when the same gas mixture was sparged through the culture. The lag period was shortened in sparged cultures by decreasing both the pO(2) and the pCO(2), indicating that gas medium equilibration had not occurred in shaken cultures. The lag period was completely eliminated at certain concentrations of O(2) and CO(2). The optimum pO(2) was 0.05 atm, but the optimum pCO(2) varied according to the pH of the medium and physiological age of the inoculum. At pH 6.4, the pCO(2) required to obtain immediate growth of exponential, postexponential, and stationary phase inocula at equal specific rates was 0.02, 0.05, and 0.16 atm, respectively. With each 0.3-unit increase in the pH of the medium, a 50% decrease in the CO(2) concentration was needed to permit growth to occur at the same rate. The pCO(2) changes required to compensate for the pH changes of the medium had the net effect of maintaining a constant bicarbonate ion concentration. Initial growth of H. eutropha was therefore indirectly related to pCO(2) and directly dependent upon a constant bicarbonate ion concentration.  相似文献   

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The chemolithotroph, Hydrogenomonas eutropha, was tested for its ability to utilize a variety of single nitrogen sources during growth in an atmosphere of H2? O2? CO2 The present data show that H. eutropha can utilize the nitrogen from many, but not all, amino acids, several sulfur-containing amino acids, glucosamine, and two aliphatic amides. The nitrogen concentration that supported maximum growth for NH4Cl, L -glutamate, L -glutamine, urea, and glycine was in the 0.010–0.019M range. H. eutropha failed to remove the nitrogen from primary and secondary amines, eycloleucine, tert-DL -leucine, DL -p-fluorophenylalanine, DL -5-methyltryptophan, creatine, and creatine. This microorganism was able to partially degrade at least six substituted indoles and/or tryptophan catabolites and six substituted imidazoles and/or histidine catabolites. All of a series of 17 dipeptides were able to serve as a nitrogen source for growth in the absence of NH4Cl. Extracts of H. eutropha were able to catalyze the hydrolysis of 16 α-dipeptides, 2 tripetides, a tetrapeptide, a polypeptide, a β-aspartyl peptide, 2 γ-glutamyl peptides, a N-acetyl amino acid, and 4 amino acid amides. These results emphasize the effectiveness of H. eutropha in utilizing a wide diversity of organic nitrogenous compounds containing amino and amide groups, heterocyclic rings, and peptide bonds.  相似文献   

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Two mutants of the facultative autotroph Hydrogenomonas eutropha were isolated by using a modified penicillin selection method. The mutation involved was unusual in that its effect on cellular growth was conditional with regard to extracellular pH and the type of substrate employed. Growth of both mutants was abnormal under autotrophic conditions and during heterotrophic cultivation in the presence of organic substrates which lacked an amino group. Abnormal growth was characterized by linear growth rates which were low at pH 6.0 and moderate at pH 7.2. In contrast, growth of the mutants was normal on most amino acids. Those substrates yielding abnormal growth were oxidized at normal rates by the mutants, indicating the mutation did not impair their uptake or metabolism. The data suggest that the mutants are defective in their ability to assimilate inorganic nitrogen into organic forms, and this defect is strongly influenced by pH.  相似文献   

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Hydrogenomonas facilis and H. eutropha cultured in fructose medium retained high levels of ribulose-1,5-diphosphate carboxylase only when the following conditions were fulfilled: low aeration, FeCl(3) addition to fructose medium, and cell harvest at or prior to mid-exponential phase of growth. Repression of carboxylase synthesis was demonstrated under conditions of high oxygen tension during growth of H. eutropha on fructose. Upon depletion of fructose in the growth medium, carboxylase activity fell abruptly in both organisms. The decline could not be attributed to a repressive mechanism. Rapid inactivation of carboxylase was promoted by transfer of mid-exponential-phase H. eutropha to a basal salts medium lacking fructose. During severe fructose starvation, N(2), H(2), 80% H(2) to 20% air, 2,4-dinitrophenol, actinomycin D, streptomycin, bicarbonate, and magnesium ion deficiency spared carboxylase. Nitrogen starvation or chloramphenicol afforded no protection during severe starvation. In vitro inactivation was also demonstrated in crude cell-free extracts from nonstarved, fructose-grown H. eutropha. Substrate bicarbonate protected against this loss. Inactivation of the carboxylase could not be demonstrated either by starvation of autotrophically grown cells or in autotrophic extracts. Autotrophic extracts mixed with heterotrophic extracts lost their carboxylase activity, but mixing with heterotrophic extracts that had been heated to 50 C resulted in no loss of activity. Mechanisms are proposed to accommodate these observations.  相似文献   

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Hydrogenomonas eutropha is known to accumulate lipid, comprised largely of polymerized beta-hydroxybutyric acid, when maintained in nitrogen-deficient medium. This lipid was very poorly absorbed by mice from bacteria-containing diets, even though nitrogen absorption was adequate. The monomer, free beta-hydroxybutyric acid, was well absorbed from purified diet. Rats fed the monomer or butyric acid ate less food and grew more slowly than rats fed corn oil.  相似文献   

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Fructose diphosphatase of Hydrogenomonas eutropha H 16, produced during autotrophic growth, was purified 247-fold from extracts of cells. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated to be 170,000. The enzyme showed a pH optimum of 8.5 in both crude extracts and purified preparation. The shape of the pH curve was not changed in the presence of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. The enzyme required Mg2+ for activity. The MgCl2 saturation curve was sigmoidal and the degree of positive cooperativity increased at lower fructose diphosphate concentrations. Mn2+ can replace Mg2+, but maximal activity was lower than that observed with Mg2+ and the optimal concentration range was narrow. The fructose diphosphate curve was also sigmoidal. The purified enzyme also hydrolyzed sedoheptulose diphosphate but at a much lower rate than fructose diphosphate. The enzyme was not inhibited by adenosine 5′-monophosphate but was inhibited by ribulose 5-phosphate and adenosine 5′-triphosphate. Adenosine 5′-triphosphate did not affect the degree of cooperativity among the sites for fructose diphosphate. The inhibition by adenosine 5′-triphosphate was mixed and by ribulose 5-phosphate was noncompetitive. An attempt was made to correlate the properties of fructose diphosphatase from H. eutropha with its physiological role during autotrophic growth.  相似文献   

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The bacterium Hydrogenomonas eutropha is under consideration for use in a regenerative life-support system for manned space missions of long duration. A 4-liter continuous culture unit containing the organism was operated for a period of 272 days under autotrophic environmental conditions. The best steady-state run achieved with this unit was observed over a 22-day time interval after 181 days of operation. During this time, the culture consumed an average of 22.9 +/- 2.0 ml of carbon dioxide per min, 38.1 +/- 3.3 ml of oxygen per min, and 128.5 +/- 10.6 ml of hydrogen per min. It required 18.7 +/- 1.2 liters of fresh nutrient medium per 24 hr to maintain a constant, preestablished cell population of 1.65 g (dry weight) per liter. The ratio of consumption of carbon dioxide, oxygen, and hydrogen varied from 1:1.2:4.5 to 1:1.9:6.6, with an average of 1:1.7:5.7. Based on these values, approximately 60 liters of the culture would be necessary to balance the gas exchange of one man.  相似文献   

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1. Phosphoribulokinase was purified 286-fold from extracts of autotrophically grown cells. 2. The enzyme had a molecular weight of 237000 and showed a pH optimum of 9.0 in both crude extracts and purified preparation. MgCl(2) was required for activity; full activation was obtained at 5mm-MgCl(2) and the K(m) was approx. 0.5mm. 3. The ATP-saturation curve was sigmoidal and the degree of positive co-operativity increased at higher MgCl(2) concentrations. The ATP-binding sites appeared to be non-interacting at low ribulose 5-phosphate concentrations. 4. Lineweaver-Burk plots for ribulose 5-phosphate showed abrupt transitions between apparently linear sections. The apparent K(m) and V(max.) values increased with increasing concentrations of ribulose phosphate. The transitions may be explained by a sequence of negative and positive co-operativity in the catalytic rate constants. 5. Phosphoribulokinase activity was inhibited by AMP and phosphoenolpyruvate and was activated by NADH. The presence of AMP or phosphoenolpyruvate increased s(0.5) (substrate concentration required for half-maximal velocity) for both ribulose 5-phosphate and ATP but V(max.) was not changed. The sigmoidicity of the ATP-saturation curve increased in the presence of AMP but was not affected by phosphoenolpyruvate. The transitions in the ribulose 5-phosphate-saturation curves were more abrupt in the presence of either inhibitor. NADH lowered the s(0.5) for both ribulose 5-phosphate and ATP. The activator did not affect the degree of positive co-operativity between ATP-binding sites, but the ribulose 5-phosphate-binding sites appeared to be non-interacting in its presence. 6. A sequence of positive and negative co-operativity in the interactions of AMP-binding sites was suggested by the Hill plots. In the presence of NADH (and phosphoenolpyruvate) the sensitivity to inhibition by AMP was less below a certain AMP concentration and increased above that concentration. 7. Examination of the interactions between ligands indicated that phosphoribulokinase can be regulated effectively by changes in effector concentrations similar to those reported to occur in vivo.  相似文献   

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Significance of gaseous NO for ammonia oxidation by Nitrosomonas eutropha   总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4  
Nitrification by the obligately lithoautotrophic ammonia oxidizer Nitrosomonas eutropha was significantly inhibited when nitric oxide was removed from the culture medium by means of intensive aeration and turbulence. Nearly complete recovery of ammonia oxidation could be achieved by adding 100 ppm NO to the supplied air. Inhibition of ammonia oxidation occurred also upon addition of the NO binding agens 2,3-Dimercapto-1-propane-sulfonic acid (DMPS). Recovery of ammonia oxidation occurred within 3 h in the presence of 100 ppm NO and within 76 h in the absence of externally added NO. In co-cultures of N. eutropha and the NO detoxifying bacterium Pseudomonas PS88, hardly any nitrification was detectable and release of NO was extremely low when the heterotroph was provided with an organic substrate. When cells of Pseudomonas PS88 were added to a mixotrophically nitrifying culture of N. eutropha the release of NO decreased drastically upon the addition and ammonia oxidation ceased. These results confirm for the first time the significance of NO in the course of ammonia oxidation by N. eutropha.  相似文献   

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Electrophoretically homogeneous ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) carboxylase was obtained from autotropically grown Hydrogenomonas eutropha by sedimentation of the 105,000 X g supernatant in a discontinuous sucrose gradient and by ammonium sulfate fractionation followed by another sucrose gradient centrifugation. The molecular weight of the enzyme determined by light scattering was 490,000 +/- 15,000. The enzyme could be dissociated by sodium dodecyl sulfate into three types of subunits, and the molecular weights (+/- 10%) could be measured. There were two species of large subunits, L and L' (molecular weight 56,000 and 52,000, respectively) and one species of small subunits (molecular weight, 15,000). The mole ratio of L to L' was 5:3, and the overall mole ratio of the small to large subunits was 1.08. The simplest quaternary structure of the enzyme is L5L'3S8. The enzyme contained RuBP oxygenase activity as evidenced by the O2-dependent production of phosphoglycolate and 3-phosphoglyceric acid in equimolar quantities from RuBP.  相似文献   

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Anaerobic ammonia oxidation by cell-free extracts of Nitrosomonas eutropha   总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4  
Cell-free extracts of Nitrosomonas eutropha oxidized ammonia to nitrite with NO2 (N2O4) as electron acceptor. The ammonia oxidation activity was shown to be sensitive against oxygen. In the absence of oxygen ammonia and NO2 were consumed in a ratio of approximately 1:2 and hydroxylamine occurred as an intermediate. NO was released in amounts equimolar to the consumption of NO2. After passing the cell suspension through a French pressure cell and fractionating it by density gradient centrifugation using a linear sucrose gradient, two soluble and two membrane fractions were detectable. Highest ammonia oxidation activity was measured in the membrane fractions and highest hydroxylamine oxidation activity in the soluble fractions. The KS values of the ammonia oxidizing system in cell-free extracts was about 20 m NH3 and remained unchanged between pH 7.25 to 8.25.  相似文献   

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Gaseous NO2 as a regulator for ammonia oxidation of Nitrosomonas eutropha   总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8  
Cells of Nitrosomonas eutropha strain N904 that were denitrifying under anoxic conditions with hydrogen as electron donor and nitrite as electron acceptor were unable to utilize ammonium (ammonia) as an energy source. The recovery of ammonia oxidation activity was dependent on the presence of NO2. Anaerobic ammonia oxidation activity was observed in a helium atmosphere supplemented with 25 ppm NO2 after 20 h. Ammonia oxidation activity was detected after 2–3 days using an oxic atmosphere with 25 ppm NO2. In contrast, ammonia consumption started after 8–9 days under oxic conditions without the addition of NO2; in this case, small amounts of NO and NO2 were detected and their concentrations increased with increasing ammonia oxidation activities. Hardly any ammonia oxidation was detected when nitrogen oxides were removed by intensive aeration. It would seem, therefore, that NO2 is the master regulatory signal for ammonia oxidation in Nitrosomonas eutropha. Anaerobic ammonia oxidation activity was inhibited by the addition of NO. This inhibition was partly compensated by either increasing the NO2 concentration or by using 2,3-dimercapto-1-propane-sulfonic acid as a NO binding substrate. DMPS was inhibitory to nitrification under oxic conditions, while increased amounts of NO or NO2 led to increased oxidation activities.  相似文献   

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