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Hodson RC, Schiff JA, Scarsella AJ. Studies of Sulfate Utilization by Algae. 7. In vivo Metabolism of Thiosulfate by Chlorella. Plant Physiol. 1968;43(4):570-7doi: 10.1104/pp.43.4.570.
Hodson, R. C., Schiff, J. A., & Scarsella, A. J. (1968). Studies of Sulfate Utilization by Algae. 7. In vivo Metabolism of Thiosulfate by Chlorella. Plant physiology, 43(4), 570-7. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.43.4.570
Hodson, R C, et al. "Studies of Sulfate Utilization by Algae. 7. In vivo Metabolism of Thiosulfate by Chlorella." Plant physiology vol. 43,4 (1968): 570-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.43.4.570
Hodson RC, Schiff JA, Scarsella AJ. Studies of Sulfate Utilization by Algae. 7. In vivo Metabolism of Thiosulfate by Chlorella. Plant Physiol. 1968 Apr;43(4):570-7. doi: 10.1104/pp.43.4.570. PMID: 16656808; PMCID: PMC1086889.
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Plant Physiol. 1968 Apr;43(4):570-7. doi: 10.1104/pp.43.4.570.

Studies of Sulfate Utilization by Algae. 7. In vivo Metabolism of Thiosulfate by Chlorella.

Plant physiology

R C Hodson, J A Schiff, A J Scarsella

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154.

PMID: 16656808 PMCID: PMC1086889 DOI: 10.1104/pp.43.4.570

Abstract

Chlorella pyrenoidosa Chick (Emerson strain 3) utilizes thiosulfate for growth as effectively as sulfate, and more effectively than a variety of organic sulfur compounds containing sulfur in various oxidation states. Thiosulfates, differentially labeled with (35)S in either the SH- or SO(3) - sulfur moieties, were used to follow the incorporation of thiosulfate-sulfur into constituents of the insoluble fraction and of the soluble pools. Labeled sulfate was also used for purposes of comparison. Label from both sulfur atoms of thiosulfate and from sulfate is incorporated into the cysteine, homocysteine, and glutathione of the soluble pools, and into the methionine and cystine of protein in the insoluble fraction. Label from SO(3)-sulfur of thiosulfate is incorporated more slowly into protein methionine and cystine than label from the SH-sulfur. Moreover, the SO(3)-sulfur of thiosulfate is recovered largely as sulfate in both the soluble pools and the insoluble fraction, while only a trace of SH-sulfur is recovered as sulfate in either case. Consistent with this, the metabolism of the SO(3)-sulfur of thiosulfate more closely resembles the metabolism of sulfate. Thus it would appear that exogenous thiosulfate undergoes early dismutation in which the SO(3)-sulfur is preferentially oxidized, and the SH-sulfur is preferentially incorporated in a reduced state. These results are discussed in relation to the conversion of sulfate to thiosulfate by cell-free extracts of Chlorella previously described.

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