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. 1973 Sep;115(3):943–948. doi: 10.1128/jb.115.3.943-948.1973

Kinetics of Glucose Incorporation by Aphanocapsa 6714

Richard A Pelroy 1, James A Bassham 1
PMCID: PMC246340  PMID: 4199519

Abstract

Photoautotrophic metabolism of CO2 was compared with glucose metabolism in the facultative unicellular blue-green alga, Aphanocapsa 6714. Glucose-fed cells incorporated more 14C into phosphorylated sugar intermediates of the reductive and oxidative pentose phosphate cycles than autotrophic cells. The relative increases were: 140-fold in dark cells; 32-fold in dichlorophenylmethylurea (DCMU)-inhibited cells; and 16-fold in cells assumilating glucose during photosynthetic carbon reduction. On the other hand, incorporation of 14C from glucose into 3-phosphoglycerate and the amino acid pools of glutamate and aspartate was reduced in dark cells. Rates of protein synthesis in dark and DCMU-inhibited cells were reduced 50 and 80% compared to photoautotrophic cells. In cells assimilating glucose during photosynthesis, rates of 14C incorporation into the two amino acids and protein were the same as in photoautotrophic cells. Chase experiments, using an excess of 12C-glucose and CO2, revealed slow turnover of carbon in dark cells and intermediate turnover rates in DCMU-inhibited cells, when compared to cells assimilating glucose during photosynthesis.

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