Isolation and preliminary characterization of auxotrophs of a filamentous Cyanobacterium.
AUTOR(ES)
Currier, T C
RESUMO
Auxotrophic mutants of the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis were isolated by a method in which, after mutagenesis and before penicllin enrichment, mutant and wild-type cells were separated by cavitation. Auxotrophs were identified by their inability to grow on minimal medium, and they were partially characterized by replica plating to media supplemented with single nutrients or specific groups of nutrients. Of the 83 auxotrophs isolated, 65 required an inorganic source of nitrogen for growth. In addition, auxotrophs were isolated that required methionine (six), uracil (two), adenine (one), biotin (two), and nicotinic acid (two). (The number of isolates of each type is indicated in parentheses.) The nutrient requirements of five auxotrophs appeared complex and were not determined. A large proportion of the mutants requiring inorgainic fixed nitrogen was altered in the differentiation of heterocysts. The following morphological aberrancies were observed: abnormally high and abnormally low frequencies of heterocysts; thick, uneven heterocyst envelopes; incompletely developed pore regions; very distinct pore regions; and protoplasts separated from the envelope of the heterocyst. Spontaneously occurring, N2-fixing, prototrophic revertants of mutants with aberrant heterocysts have been isolated at a frequency of 2 X 10(-8) to 4 X 10(-8) of the cells plated. That most such revertants produced morphologically normal heterocysts is consisten with the idea that heterocysts play an essential role in aerobic N2 fixation.
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