You have full text access to this OnlineOpen article

Acetylene reduction and hydrogen photoproduction by wild-type and mutant strains of Anabaena at different CO2 and O2 concentrations

  1. A.A Tsygankov1,2,*,
  2. L.T Serebryakova1,2,
  3. K.K Rao1,
  4. D.O Hall1

Article first published online: 17 JAN 2006

DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb13201.x

Issue

FEMS Microbiology Letters

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volume 167, Issue 1, pages 13–17, October 1998

Additional Information

How to Cite

Tsygankov, A.A., Serebryakova, L.T., Rao, K.K. and Hall, D.O. (1998), Acetylene reduction and hydrogen photoproduction by wild-type and mutant strains of Anabaena at different CO2 and O2 concentrations. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 167: 13–17. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb13201.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    King's College London, Campden Hill Road, London W8 7AH, UK

  2. 2

    Institute of Soil Sciences and Photosynthesis RAS, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142292, Russia

* *Corresponding author. Institute of Soil Sciences and Photosynthesis RAS, Pushchino, Moscow Region 142292, Russia. Fax: +7 (967) 790532; E-mail: ttt@issp.serpukhov.su

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 17 JAN 2006
  2. Article first published online: 17 JAN 2006
  3. Received 3 August 1998, Accepted 5 August 1998

SEARCH

SEARCH BY CITATION

ARTICLE TOOLS

View Full Article (HTML) Get PDF (183K)

References

  • 1
    Fay, P. (1992) Oxygen relations of nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria. Microbiol. Rev. 56, 340–373.
  • 2
    Gallon, J.R. (1992) Reconciling the incompatible: N2 fixation and O2. New Phytol. 122, 571–609.
    Direct Link:
  • 3
    Winkenbach, F. and Wolk, C.P. (1973) Activities of enzymes of the oxidative and reductive pentose phosphate pathways in heterocysts of blue-green alga. Plant Physiol. 52, 480–483.
  • 4
    Wolk, C.P. (1996) Heterocyst formation. Annu. Rev. Genet. 30, 59–78.
  • 5
    Sveshnikov, D.A., Sveshnikova, N.V., Rao, K.K. and Hall, D.O. (1997) Hydrogen metabolism of mutant forms of Anabaena variabilis in continuous cultures and under nutritional stress. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 147, 297–301.
    Direct Link:
  • 6
    Markov, S.A., Bazin, M.J. and Hall, D.O. (1995) The potential of using cyanobacteria in photobioreactors for hydrogen production. Biochem. Eng. Biotechnol. 52, 61–86.
  • 7
    Mikheeva, L.E., Schmitz, O., Shestakov, S.V. and Bothe, H. (1995) Mutants of the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis altered in hydrogenase activities. Z. Naturforsch. 50, 505–510.
  • 8
    Allen, M.B. and Arnon, D.I. (1955) Studies on nitrogen-fixing blue-green algae. I. Growth and nitrogen fixation by Anabaena cylindrica. Lemm. Plant Physiology. 30, 366–372.
  • 9
    Tsygankov, A.A., Serebryakova, L.T., Sveshnikov, D.A., Rao, K.K., Gogotov, I.N. and Hall, D.O. (1997) Hydrogen photoproduction by three different nitrogenases in whole cells of Anabaena variabilis and the dependence on pH. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 22, 859–867.
  • 10
    Tsygankov, A.A., Hall, D.O., Liu, J.G. and Rao, K.K. (1998) An automated helical photobioreactor incorporating cyanobacteria for continuous hydrogen production. In: Biohydrogen-97, Proc. Int. Conference, Hawaii, June, 1997 (Zaborsky, O.R., Ed.). Plenum Press, New York, NY, in press.
  • 11
    McKinney, G. (1941) Absorption of light by chlorophyll solutions. J. Biol. Chem. 140, 315–322.
  • 12
    Jones, L.W. and Bishop, N.J. (1976) Simultaneous measurement of oxygen and hydrogen exchange from the blue-green algae Anabaena. Plant Physiol. 57, 659–665.
  • 13
    Smith, R.L., Tabita, F.R. and Van Baalen, C. (1988) Hydrogen uptake in Anabaena sp. strain CA does not protect nitrogenase from inactivation by hyperbaric oxygen. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 52, 183–188.
  • 14
    Daday, A. and Smith, G.D. (1987) The hydrogenase-nitrogenase relationship in a symbiotic cyanobacterium isolated from Macrozomia communs L. Jonson. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 14, 318–324.
  • 15
    Oxelfelt, F., Tamagnini, P., Salema, R. and Lindblad, P. (1995) Hydrogen uptake in Nostoc strain PCC 73102; Effects of nickel, hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 33, 617–623.
View Full Article (HTML) Get PDF (183K)