Abstract
Nitrogen-starved purple non-sulphur bacteria have an active unregulated form of nitrogenase (nitrogenase A); however, the nitrogenase of a glutamine synthetase-negative mutant of Rhodopseudomonas capsulata, when nitrogen-starved, was predominantly inactive and required activation by Mn2+ and activating-factor protein. This regulatory form of nitrogenase has been called nitrogenase R. Treatment of wild-type cells (containing nitrogenase A) with methionine sulphoximine, an inhibitor of glutamine synthetase, converted the enzyme into nitrogenase R. Glutamine synthetase thus appears to control the intracellular concentrations of nitrogenase A and R and in this way regulates nitrogenase activity in the photosynthetic bacterium.
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