Abstract
Nine strains of brown rhodospirilla, i.e. Rhodospirillum photometricum, R. molischianum and R. fulvum were examined with respect to nitrogen nutrition and the pathway of ammonia assimilation. R. photometricum strains were nutritionally more versatile than strains of the other two species; glutamate, aspartate, and several other amino acids supported good growth of R. photometricum but were poorly utilized by R. molischianum and R. fulvum. Glutamine and N2 supported excellent growth of strains of all species. The glutamine synthetase/glutamate synthase pathway served as the major means of ammonia assimilation in brown rhodospirilla; no evidence for glutamate dehydrogenase was obtained from any species. NADPH was required as coenzyme for glutamate synthase activity in R. photometricum strain while only NADH served in this connection in R. molischianum and R. fulvum.
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