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Provedor de dados: | 5
País: | France
Título: | Metabolism of cyanobacteria in anaerobic marine sediments.
Autores: | Stal, L; Krumbein, W.
Data: | 1984-10
Ano: | 1984
Palavras-chave: | Oscillatoria; Microcoleus chthonoplastes; Cyanophyta; Metabolism; Chemical cycles; Algae; Anoxic sediments; Anaerobic respiration; Algal mats; Biogeochemistry; Fermentation; Sulfur; Nitrogen fixation; Nitrogen cycle.
Resumo: | Two cyanobacteria isolated from marine microbial mats metabolized endogenous carbon reserves anaerobically in the dark. Microcoleus chthonoplastes reduced elemental sulfur to sulfide and Oscillatoria sp. additionally produced lactate in the absence of elemental sulfur. Under nitrogen fixing conditions, however, no sulfur reduction occurs. Lactate fermentation appeared to be the mechanism of anaerobic carbon degradation under these conditions. With a nitrogenase-reducible substrate, e.g. acetylene, added, lactate fermentation as well as sulfur reduction stops in cultures of Oscillatoria containing nitrogenase. In this case only ethylene production was observed. These cyanobacteria seem to possess the capability to carry out anaerobic dark metabolism constitutively. No lag-period was observed in utilization of carbon reserve polymer or in product formation after transferring the cultures from the light to the dark under anaerobic conditions.
Tipo: | Text
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1984/acte-974.pdf
Editor: | Actes de colloques. Ifremer Brest [ACTES COLLOQ. IFREMER.]. 1986
Relação: | http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/974/
Formato: | application/pdf