Oxygen inactivation and recovery of nitrogenase activity in cyanobacteria.
AUTOR(ES)
Pienkos, P T
RESUMO
Exposure of nitrogen-fixing cultures of Anabaena spp. to 100% oxygen resulted in the rapid decline of nitrogenase activity. When oxygen-treated cells were transferred to 100% argon, nitrogenase activity was quickly restored in a process that required protein synthesis. Anaerobiosis was not essential for the recovery process; in fact, cells of Anabaena sp. strains CA and 1F will recover nitrogenase activity after prolonged incubation in 100% oxygen. Oxygen treatment acted directly on the intracellular nitrogenase and did not affect other metabolic processes. Examination of crude extracts of oxygen-treated Anabaena sp. strain CA indicated that both components of nitrogenase are inactivated. However, several lines of evidence suggest that oxygen treatment does not result in irreversible denaturation of nitrogenase, but rather results in a reversible inactivation which may serve as a protection mechanism. Nitrogenase present in crude extracts from cells of Anabaena sp. strain 1F which had been incubated for a prolonged period in 100% oxygen was less sensitive to oxygen in vitro than was nitrogenase of a crude extract of untreated cells.
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