Organic Nitrogen Metabolism of Phototrophic Bacteria

Overview

Journal Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Publisher Springer

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1989 Mar 1

PMID 2569291

Citations 2

Authors

J H Klemme

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Abstract

Recent reviews dealing with phototrophic bacteria are concerned with bioenergetics, nitrogen fixation and hydrogen metabolism, synthesis of the photosynthetic apparatus and phylogeny/taxonomy. The organic N-metabolism of these phylogenetically diverse bacteria has last been reviewed in 1978. However, amino acid utilization and biosynthesis, ammonia assimilation, purine and pyrimidine metabolism and biosynthesis of delta-aminolevulinic acid as precursor of bacteriochlorophylls and hemes are topics of vital importance. This review focuses on utilization of amino acids as N- and C/N-sources, the pathways of purine and pyrimidine degradation, novel aspects of amino acid biosynthesis (with emphasis on branched-chain amino acids and delta-aminolevulinic acid) and some aspects of ammonia assimilation and glutamate synthesis by purple bacteria, green sulfur bacteria and Chloroflexus aurantiacus.

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