TREHALOSE AS OSMOPROTECTANT IN RHODOBACTER-SPHAEROIDES F-SP. DENITRIFICANS IL106

Authors
XU XY ABO M OKUBO A YAMAZAKI S
Citation
Xy. Xu et al., TREHALOSE AS OSMOPROTECTANT IN RHODOBACTER-SPHAEROIDES F-SP. DENITRIFICANS IL106, Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 62(2), 1998, pp. 334-337
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Biology,Agriculture,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology","Food Science & Tenology
Journal title
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
09168451
Volume
62
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
334 - 337
Database
ISI
SICI code
0916-8451(1998)62:2<334:TAOIRF>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
The photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides f. sp. denitrific ans IL106 can grow in high osmolarity. The accumulation of intracellul ar inorganic ions and organic solutes in cells grown in a synthetic me dium containing different concentrations of NaCl was examined. Togethe r with potassium ion, trehalose was the major organic osmoprotectant a nd its accumulation depended on the external salt concentration. Intra cellular levels of glycine betaine and other osmoprotectants such as p roline did not change when osmolarity increased.