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ArticlePhotosynthesis research2009

Sulfur oxidation in mutants of the photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum devoid of cytochrome c-554 and SoxB.

Chihiro Azai, Yusuke Tsukatani, Jiro Harada, Hirozo Oh-oka

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Article in Photosynthesis research, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Chihiro AzaiDepartment of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan.
Yusuke Tsukatani
Jiro Harada
Hirozo Oh-oka
Osaka University · JPNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology · JPRitsumeikan University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A mutant devoid of cytochrome c-554 (CT0075) in Chlorobium tepidum (syn. Chlorobaculum tepidum) exhibited a decreased growth rate but normal growth yield when compared to the wild type. From quantitative determinations of sulfur compounds in media, the mutant was found to oxidize thiosulfate more slowly than the wild type but completely to sulfate as the wild type. This indicates that cytochrome c-554 would increase the rate of thiosulfate oxidation by serving as an efficient electron carrier but is not indispensable for thiosulfate oxidation itself. On the other hand, mutants in which a portion of the soxB gene (CT1021) was replaced with the aacC1 cassette did not grow at all in a medium containing only thiosulfate as an electron source. They exhibited partial growth yields in media containing only sulfide when compared to the wild type. This indicates that SoxB is not only essential for thiosulfate oxidation but also responsible for sulfide oxidation. An alternative electron carrier or electron transfer path would thus be operating between the Sox system and the reaction center in the mutant devoid of cytochrome c-554. Cytochrome c-554 might function in any other pathway(s) as well as the thiosulfate oxidation one, since even green sulfur bacteria that cannot oxidize thiosulfate contain a cycA gene encoding this electron carrier.

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PhotosynthesisBacterial ProteinsChlorobiChlorobiumCulture MediaCytochrome c GroupElectronsMutationOxidation-ReductionSulfidesSulfurThiosulfatesBacterial ProteinsCulture Mediacytochrome C-552Cytochrome c GroupSulfidesSulfurThiosulfates

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