Abstract
Pteridines were detected in strain R-26 of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides and the pteridine concentrations in subcellular fractions were measured by a sensitive fluorimetric method. The whole cell fraction contained nearly equal concentrations of pteridine and reaction center bacteriochlorophyll. The soluble subcellular fraction contained the majority of the pteridine and the photochemically active chromatophore preparations contained very little. No pteridine was detected in purified reaction center complex preparations. This subcellular localization of pteridines was not consistent with a pteridine functioning as the primary electron acceptor in this photosynthetic system.
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