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This study demonstrated the production of a cadmium-induced low molecular weight (3.5 kDa), buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) sensitive protein in Anabaena doliolum. Production of this protein was accompanied by a decrease in the glutathione level of the cell. Cadmium was found to be differentially toxic to carbon fixation, O2 evolution, ATP content, nitrate reductase, nitrogenase, alkaline phosphatase and ATPase of control (untreated), BSO, cadmium and (cadmium + BSO) pre-treated A. doliolum. Toxicity was maximum in BSO-grown cells followed be control (untreated), cadmium + BSO and least in cadmium-grown A. doliolum. Cadmium and (cadmium + BSO)-grown cells registered an increased lipid production, reduced metal uptake and low K+, Na+ loss. In spite of equal cadmium uptake rates, a significant difference in toxicity between cadmium-grown and (cadmium + BSO)-grown cultures was, however, noticed. Better performance of physiological and biochemical variables of cadmium-grown A. doliolum and its tolerance to cadmium could be due to the synthesis of low molecular weight cadmium binding protein (presumably phytochelatin) as well as an increased production of lipid.
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Mallick, N., Pandey, S. & Rai, L.C. Involvement of a cadmium-induced low molecular weight protein in regulating cadmium toxicity in the diazotrophic cyanobacterium Anabaena doliolum . Biometals 7, 299–304 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00144125
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