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METHANE INCORPORATION BY PROCARYOTIC PHOTOSYNTHETICMICROORGANISMS [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1970.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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69 pages : digital, PDF file
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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
The procaryotic photosynthetic microorganisms Anacystis nidulans, Nostoc and Rhodospirillum rubrum have cell walls and membranes that are resistant to the solution of methane in their lipid components and intracellular fluids. But Anacystis nidulans, possesses a limited bioxidant system, a portion of which may be extracellularly secreted, which rapidly oxidizes methane to carbon dioxide. Small C¹⁴ activities derived from CH₄ in excess of experimental error are detected in all the major biochemical fractions of Anacystis nidulans and Nostoc. This limited capacity to metabolize methane appears to be a vestigial potentiality that originated over two billion years ago in the early evolution of photosynthetic bacteria and blue-green algae.
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E 1.99:ucrl--20204
ucrl--20204
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Published through SciTech Connect.
08/01/1970.
"ucrl--20204"
Calvin, Melvin; Kirk, Martha; Norton, Charles J.
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
Funding Information
DE-AC02-05CH11231
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