Comparative Cytochrome Oxidase and Superoxide Dismutase Analyses on Strains of Azotobacter vinelandii and Other Related Free-Living Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria
AUTOR(ES)
Jurtshuk, Peter
RESUMO
Quantitative N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMPD) oxidase and superoxide dismutase (SOD) analyses were performed on representative organisms of the family Azotobacteraceae. Azotobacter vinelandii, Azotobacter chroococcum, Azotobacter paspali, and Derxia gummosa exhibited high quantitative TMPD oxidase activities, and their extracts possessed very active and electrophoretically homogeneous (single gel band) Fe-type SODs. Azomonas macrocytogenes extracts had similar single Fe-type SODs, and their cells exhibited no TMPD-dependent cytochrome oxidase activity. Nitrogen-fixing cells of Beijerinckia indica, Beijerinckia derxii, and Beijerinckia mobilis exhibited minimal TMPD oxidation capabilities (rates equivalent to the TMPD autooxidation reaction), and these extracts also possessed very active SODs but only of the Mn metallotype.
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