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Hydrogen metabolism in the facultative anoxygenic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) Oscillatoria limnetica and Aphanothece halophytica

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Two facultative anoxygenic photoautotrophic cyanobacteria, Oscillatoria limnetica and Aphanothece halophytica were found capable of CO2 photoassimilation using molecular hydrogen as electron donor in a photosystem I driven reaction. A. halophytica was also capable of evolving hydrogen from Na-dithionite reduced methylviologen in a light independent reaction.

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Abbreviations

DCMU:

3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea

DSPD:

Disallcylidenepropanediamine

FCCP:

Carbonylcyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenyl hydrazone

Tricine:

N-tris(hydroxy methyl)-methylglycine

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  1. Department of Microbiological Chemistry, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

    Shimshon Belkin & Etana Padan

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Belkin, S., Padan, E. Hydrogen metabolism in the facultative anoxygenic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) Oscillatoria limnetica and Aphanothece halophytica . Arch. Microbiol. 116, 109–111 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408741

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