Nitrogen lipid regulator (NlpR) is a pleiotropic regulator that positively controls genes associated with both nitrogen and lipid metabolism in the oleaginous bacterium Rhodococcus jostii RHA1. In this study, we investigated the effect of nlpR disruption and overexpression on the assimilation of 13C-labeled glucose as carbon source, during cultivation of cells under nitrogen-limiting and nitrog...

Previous experiments have revealed a much greater efficiency of ammonium utilization by bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) when the acidity of the ambient medium was maintained at near-neutral conditions with carbonates or hydroxides. The present investigation, in which (15)N-labeled ammonium was used, permitted an assessment of the origin of nitrogen in tissue nitrogen pools with and without ...

A method has been developed for the production of (13)N-labeled ammonia in usable quantities with negligible contamination. A system was developed and a process for the production of nitrogen-13 ammonium ions from a target material in the form of a dilute solution of ethanol in natural water, i.e. the bombardment of oxygen-16 with protons within the target material. The system includes a device...

Under nitrogen-limiting, secondary metabolic conditions, the white rot basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium extensively mineralized the specifically 14C-ring-labeled azo dyes 4-phenylazophenol, 4-phenylazo-2-methoxyphenol, Disperse Yellow 3 [2-(4'-acetamidophenylazo)-4-methylphenol], 4-phenylazoaniline, N,N-dimethyl-4-phenylazoaniline, Disperse Orange 3 [4-(4'-nitrophenylazo)-aniline], and...

The biosynthesis of desmosine and isodesmosine was studied with chick embryo aortas in tissue culture. Radioactivity was incorporated into desmosine and isodesmosine when uniformly labeled lysine-W was added to the medium, but no activity could be incorporated into these amino acids from aspartic acidJ4C, glutamic acidJ4C, or threonine-14C. The labeled desmosine and isodesmosine obtained after ...