Presence of Exclusively Bacteriochlorophyll-c Containing Substrain in the Culture of Green Sulfur Photosynthetic Bacterium Chlorobium vibrioforme Strain NCIB 8327 Producing Bacteriochlorophyll-d

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  • SAGA Yoshitaka
    Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
  • OH-OKA Hirozo
    Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
  • HAYASHI Takashi
    Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
  • TAMIAKI Hitoshi
    Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University

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Abstract

The light-dependent composition change of light harvesting bacteriochlorophyll(BChl)s in the present culture of a green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobium (Chl.) vibrioforme f. sp. thiosulfatophilum strain NCIB 8327 was investigated by visible absorption spectroscopy and HPLC analyses. When the culture was repeatedly grown in liquid media under a low light condition, both the Soret and Qy absorption bands of the in vivo spectrum were shifted to longer wavelengths. Analysis of the extracted pigments by HPLC revealed that the ratio of the amount of BChl-c to that of BChl-d molecules gradually increased during repeated cultivation. In contrast, when the culture grown under a low light intensity was transferred to a high light condition and continued to be grown, the absorption bands were shifted to shorter wavelengths and the ratio of BChls-c/d decreased finally to the almost original value. Colonies were prepared on solid agar media from the liquid culture containing both BChls-c and d, which was grown under a low light intensity. Each colony obtained was found to contain either BChl-c or d, but not both of them. Two types of cells isolated in this study were derived from the same clone, judged from their genetic analyses. The variation of pigment composition in our liquid culture observed here could be ascribed to the difference of growth rates between two substrains containing BChl-c and BChl-d, respectively, depending on light conditions.

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  • Analytical Sciences

    Analytical Sciences 19 (12), 1575-1579, 2003

    The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry

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