Cytochrome system in cultivated Mycobacterium lepraemurium.
The respiratory pigments of cell suspensions of Mycobacterium lepraemurium cultivated on Ogawa egg-yolk medium were investigated spectrophotometrically. The results obtained showed that whole cell suspensions of both Kumato and Hawaiian strains contained flavins, cytochromes of the a2 and b type, as well as a CO-binding pigment similar to cytochrome o. The whole cell suspensions of M. lepraemurium did not show detectable quantities of c type cytochrome. However, cytochrome c was present in small amounts, and its presence became evident in the dithionite-reduced minus oxidized difference spectra of pyridine haemochromogens prepared from in vitro grown cells of M. lepraemurium.
D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D003580:Cytochromes / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D009167:Mycobacterium lepraemurium / Q000378:metabolism*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D011485:Protein Binding; D013053:Spectrophotometry
D003580:Cytochromes; D002245:Carbon Dioxide