Blockage by acetylene of nitrous oxide reduction in Pseudomonas perfectomarinus.

AUTOR(ES)

Balderston, W L

RESUMO

Suspensions of denitrifying cells of Pseudomonas perfectomarinus reduced nitrate and nitrate as expected to dinitrogen; but, in the presence of acetylene, nitrous oxide accumulated when nitrate or nitrate was reduced. When supplied at the outset in place of nitrate and nitrate, nitrous oxide was rapidly reduced to dinitrogen by cells incubated in anaerobic vessels in the absence of acetylene. In the presence of 0.01 atmospheres of acetylene, however, nitrous oxide was not reduced. Ethylene was not produced, nor did it influence the rate of nitrous oxide reduction when provided instead of acetylene. Cells exposed to 0.01 atmospheres of acetylene for as long as 400 min were able to reduce nitrous oxide after removal of acetylene at a rate comparable to that of cells not exposed to acetylene. Acetylene did not affect the production or functioning of assimilatory nitrate or nitrite reductase in axenic cultures of Enterobacter aerogenes or Trichoderma uride. While exposed to acetylene, bacteria in marine sediment slurries produced measurable quantities of nitrous oxide from glucose- or acetate-dependent reduction of added nitrate. Possible use of acetylene blockage for measurement of denitrification in unamended marine sediments is discussed.

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