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Title: Rapid synthesis and metabolism of glutamate in N/sub 2/-fixing bacteroids. [Bradyrhizobium japonicum]

Conference · · Plant Physiol., Suppl.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6065683

Symbiotic nodule bacteroids are thought to support N/sub 2/ fixation mainly by metabolizing dicarboxylic acids to CO/sub 2/, generating reductant and ATP required by nitrogenase. Bradyrhizobium japonicum bacteroids were isolated anaerobically and incubated at 2% O/sub 2/ with /sup 14/C-labeled succinate, malate, glutamate, or aspartate. /sup 14/CO/sub 2/ was collected, and the bacteroid contents separated into neutral, organic acid, and amino acid fractions. The respiration of substrates, relative to their uptake, was malate > glutamate > succinate > aspartate. Analysis of the fractions revealed that will all substrates the radioactivity was found mostly in the amino acid fraction. The labeling of the neutral fraction was negligible and only a small amount of label was found in the organic acid fraction indicating a small pool size. TLC of the amino acid fraction showed the label to be principally in glutamate. Glutamate contained 67, 80, 97, and 88% of the /sup 14/C in the amino acid fraction in bacteroids fed with succinate, malate, glutamate and aspartate, respectively. The data suggest that glutamate may play an important role in the bacteroid function.

Research Organization:
Ohio State Univ., Wooster
OSTI ID:
6065683
Report Number(s):
CONF-8707108-; TRN: 87-037466
Journal Information:
Plant Physiol., Suppl.; (United States), Vol. 83:4; Conference: Annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, St. Louis, MO, USA, 19 Jul 1987
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English