Nitrate and Nitrite Reduction by Wolffia arrhiza1
AUTOR(ES)
Swader, J. A.
RESUMO
Nitrate reductase was not found to be present in or associated with partially purified, intact chloroplasts aqueously isolated from Wolffia arrhiza. Such chloroplasts are capable of using nitrite but not nitrate as an electron acceptor during light-stimulated electron transport in the absence of additional cytoplasmic components. When nitrite acts as an electron acceptor under these conditions, on the average 1.5 moles of oxygen are evolved per mole of nitrite reduced by the chloroplasts, indicating a probable reduction of nitrite to ammonia. Chloroplasts ruptured by osmotic shock fail to reduce nitrite in the absence of additional components.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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