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Hydrogen evolution by a thermophilic blue-green alga. Mastigocladus laminosus

Abstract

The thermophillic blue-green alga (cyanobacterium), Mastigocladus laminosus isolated from a hot spring, evolved hydrogen gas under nitrogen-starved conditions in light when algal cells were grown in a nitrate-free medium. Cells grown in a nitrate-medium evolved no detectable hydrogen gas in light. The optimal temperature and pH for hydrogen evolution were 44-49 degrees C and 7.0-7.5. High activity of hydrogen evolution, 1.6 ml H/sub 2//mg chl.hr, was induced when algal cells grown in the nitrate medium were actively forming heterocysts in the nitrate-free medium in air. Hydrogen evolution in light was depressed by nitrogen gas and inhibited by salicylaldoxime or DNP. This hydrogen evolution by M. laminosus is attributed to the action of nitrogenase.
Publication Date:
Jan 01, 1980
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
EDB-83-056505
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Plant Cell Physiol.; (Japan); Journal Volume: 21:1
Subject:
08 HYDROGEN; 09 BIOMASS FUELS; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; BIOPHOTOLYSIS; ALGAE; INHIBITION; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; PH VALUE; BIOCONVERSION; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DECOMPOSITION; ELEMENTS; ENZYMES; NITRO-GROUP DEHYDROGENASES; NONMETALS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTOLYSIS; PLANTS; 080106* - Hydrogen- Production- Biosynthesis & Photochemical Processes; 140504 - Solar Energy Conversion- Biomass Production & Conversion- (-1989); 550700 - Microbiology
OSTI ID:
6444653
Research Organizations:
Dept of Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka Univ, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
Country of Origin:
Japan
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: PCPHA
Submitting Site:
HEDB
Size:
Pages: 149-156
Announcement Date:
Dec 01, 1982

Citation Formats

Mirua, Y, Yokoyama, H, Kanaoka, K, Saito, S, Iwasa, K, Okazaki, M, and Komemushi, S. Hydrogen evolution by a thermophilic blue-green alga. Mastigocladus laminosus. Japan: N. p., 1980. Web.
Mirua, Y, Yokoyama, H, Kanaoka, K, Saito, S, Iwasa, K, Okazaki, M, & Komemushi, S. Hydrogen evolution by a thermophilic blue-green alga. Mastigocladus laminosus. Japan.
Mirua, Y, Yokoyama, H, Kanaoka, K, Saito, S, Iwasa, K, Okazaki, M, and Komemushi, S. 1980. "Hydrogen evolution by a thermophilic blue-green alga. Mastigocladus laminosus." Japan.
@misc{etde_6444653,
title = {Hydrogen evolution by a thermophilic blue-green alga. Mastigocladus laminosus}
author = {Mirua, Y, Yokoyama, H, Kanaoka, K, Saito, S, Iwasa, K, Okazaki, M, and Komemushi, S}
abstractNote = {The thermophillic blue-green alga (cyanobacterium), Mastigocladus laminosus isolated from a hot spring, evolved hydrogen gas under nitrogen-starved conditions in light when algal cells were grown in a nitrate-free medium. Cells grown in a nitrate-medium evolved no detectable hydrogen gas in light. The optimal temperature and pH for hydrogen evolution were 44-49 degrees C and 7.0-7.5. High activity of hydrogen evolution, 1.6 ml H/sub 2//mg chl.hr, was induced when algal cells grown in the nitrate medium were actively forming heterocysts in the nitrate-free medium in air. Hydrogen evolution in light was depressed by nitrogen gas and inhibited by salicylaldoxime or DNP. This hydrogen evolution by M. laminosus is attributed to the action of nitrogenase.}
journal = []
volume = {21:1}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Japan}
year = {1980}
month = {Jan}
}