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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 13 | NUMBER 2 | PAGES 373-387 | 1991
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Algal carbon–nitrogen metabolism: a biochemical basis for modelling the interactions between nitrate and ammonium uptake

K.J. Flynn

Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory PO Box 3, Oban, Argyll PA34 4AD, UK

Received on January 8, 1990; accepted on October 22, 1990

It is hypothesized that the regulation of the response by phytoplankton to nitrogen-stress centres directly or indirectly on the intracellular proportions of key metabolites of nitrogen and carbon metabolism, such as glutamine and 2-oxoglutarate, as has been demonstrated for bacteria Many of the interactions between ammonium and nitrate assimilations, with respiration, CO2-fixation and nitrogen-stress, may be explained by such a mechanism This mode of regulation allows a progressive response to stress by (in)activation and (de)repression of transport and assimilatory processes, with growth on excess ammonium causing maximum repression of the capacity to use other sources of nitrogen, such as nitrate At the concentration of ammonium in marine waters, however, a measure of derepression is probably the norm enabling a simultaneous uptake of several sources of nitrogen

Present address: Algal Research Unit, Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK


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