Carbon and Nitrogen Content of Natural Planktonic Bacteria

Carbon and nitrogen content of natural planktonic bacteria.

A method of estimating carbon and nitrogen content per unit of natural bacterial cell volume was developed. This method is based on the difference in the retentiveness of bacteria between two kinds of glass fiber filter, GF/C and GF/F (Whatman, Inc., Clifton, N.J.). Biovolume and biomass (carbon and nitrogen content) of bacteria which passed through the GF/C but not the GF/F filter were estimat...

Protein content and protein synthesis rates of planktonic marine bacteria

Bacterial carbon production is an important parameter in understanding the flows of carbon and energy in aquatic ecosystems, but has been difficult to measure. Present methods are based on measuring the rate of cell production, and thus require a knowledge of cellular carbon content of the growing bacteria to convert cell production into carbon production. We have examined the possibility that ...

Content of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorus in native aquatic and cultured bacteria

The content of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur was measured in individual cells from 6 native aquatic samples and 4 samples of cultured bacteria by X-ray microanalysis using a transmission electron microscope (TEM). The molar C N:P ratio for the pooled sample was 50:lO:l From length and width measurements of unfixed air-dried cells we estimated cell volumes over a total range of...

Single-cell RNA content of natural marine planktonic bacteria measured by hybridization with multiple 16S rRNA-targeted fluorescent probes

Despite the potential of cellular RNA as a tool for the study of bacterial activities in natural environments, cellular RNA has rarely been measured because of methodological limitations. In a previous study, we quantitatively analyzed single-cell RNA content with multiple 16S rRNA-targeted fluorescent probes. In the present study, we explore the potential of this approach with 12 samples of na...

The effect of carbon subsidies on planktonic niche partitioning and recruitment of bacteria to marine biofilms