Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Metabolism of Hydrogenomonas: Regulation of Autotrophic Growth by Organic Substrates

Regulation of autotrophic and heterotrophic carbon dioxide fixation in Hydrogenomonas facilis.

After growth on various carbon sources, sonic extracts of Hydrogenomonas facilis contained ribulosediphosphate (RuDP) carboxylase and phosphoribulokinase (Ru5-P kinase). After very short sonic treatment, a reductive adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-dependent incorporation of (14)CO(2) was also detectable. Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH(2)) served as reductant 30-fold more effective...

Autotrophic, Heterotrophic and Other Nutritional Patterns

Diel patterns of autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration among phenological stages.

Improved understanding of the links between aboveground production and allocation of photosynthate to belowground processes and the temporal variation in those links is needed to interpret observations of belowground carbon cycling processes. Here, we show that combining a trenching manipulation with high-frequency soil respiration measurements in a temperate hardwood forest permitted identific...

Ultrastructure of Nitrobacter agilis grown under autotrophic and heterotrophic conditions.

Nitrobacter agilis, grown through seven transfers heterotrophically in the absence of nitrite, was examined in the electron microscope. The ultrastructure of such cells closely resembled that of autotrophically grown N. agilis. It was thus futher established that the organisms growing heterotrophically were indeed N. agilis and, therefore, that N. agilis is a facultative autotroph. Acetate inco...

Studies on the Metabolism of Autotrophic Bacteria

In a study of chemosynthesis (the fixation of CO(2) by autotrophic bacteria in the dark) in Thiobacillus thiooxidans, the data obtained support the following conclusions: 1. CO(2) can be fixed by "resting cells" of Thiobacillus thiooxidans; the fixation is not "growth bound." 2. The physiological condition of the cell is of considerable importance in determining CO(2) fixation. 3. CO(2) fixatio...