Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire
Abstract
Holt, Stanley
C. (Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.), S. F.
Conti, and
R. C.
Fuller
. Photosynthetic apparatus in the green bacterium
Chloro-pseudomonas ethylicum
. J. Bacteriol.
91:
311–323. 1966.—When cells of
Chloro-pseudomonas ethylicum
were broken by ballistic disruption and examined by electron microscopy, vesicles 1,300 to 1,500 A long and 300 to 500 A wide were found to rim the periphery of the cell. Examination of these vesicles obtained by disruption with a French pressure cell and purified by density gradient centrifugation revealed inter-connections between the vesicles. During sonic and Mickle disruption of the cells, chlorophyll was released at a lower rate than soluble cytoplasmic components, but faster than the membrane-bound enzyme succinic dehydrogenase. Unlike the situation that exists in the purple photosynthetic bacteria, it appears that the chlorophyll in the green bacteria is contained as part of a structure which may be differentiated both structurally and functionally from the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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