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Ectothiorhodospira halochloris grows photoheterotrophically with a variety of sulfur sources. During sulfide oxidation to elemental sulfur considerable amounts of polysulfides may be accumulated transiently. When grown on elemental sulfur no sulfate was produced by oxidation, but sulfide and polysulfide were formed by reduction. Only one soluble cytochrome c-551 was isolated and purified. It was a small acidic hemeprotein with a molecular weight of 6,300, an isoelectric point of 3.1 and a redox potential of-11 mV at pH 7.0. It showed three absorption maxima in the reduced state (α=551 nm; β=523 nm; γ=417 nm). The addition of various c-type cytochromes to a suspension of spheroplasts stimulated the velocity of sulfide oxidation. This stimulation was best with the small acidic cytochromes from E. halochloris or Ectothiorhodospira abdelmalekii. Sulfide oxidation was stopped by several uncoupling agents, ionophores and electron transport inhibitors. Antimycin A, rotenone and cyanide had no effect on sulfide oxidation.
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Then, J., Trüper, H.G. Utilization of sulfide and elemental sulfur by Ectothiorhodospira halochloris . Arch. Microbiol. 139, 295–298 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408369
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