The regulation of the development of nitrate reductase (NR) activity in Chlamydomonas reinhardii has been compared in a wild-type strain and in a mutant (nit-A) which possesses a modified nitrate reductase enzyme that is non-functional in vivo. The modified enzyme cannot use NAD(P)H as an electron d
The development of nitrate reductase in Chlorella and its repression by ammonium
β Scribed by Morris, I. ;Syrett, P. J.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1963
- Weight
- 605 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-9276
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β¦ Synopsis
Chlorella vulgaris growing with ammonium nitrate as nitrogen source utilises nil of the ammonium-N before nitrate begins to be assimilated. We have attempted to analyse this phenomenon and have shown that the assimilation of ammonium in some way inhibits nitrate reduction (SYnETT and ~oRt~Is 1963). In this paper a second effect of ammonium is established and discussed, namely the repression, by ammonium, of the development of nitrate reductase activity.
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