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Lipid biosynthesis has been studied in photosynthetic cultures of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides that had been synchronized by stationary-phase cycling or by a centrifugation selection procedure. Synchrony index values in the range 0.70-0.80 were obtained for the first cell cycle with both synchronization methods. The major membrane lipids phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylglycerol were accumulated discontinuously during the cell cycle, their mass doubling immediately before cell division. This accumulation of lipid corresponded to peaks in incorporation of radioactivity from either [1-14C]acetate or [2-3H]glycerol into individual acyl lipids as measured in individual portions of bacteria. For phosphatidylglycerol an additional peak of incorporation of radioactivity from [2-3H]glycerol was found midway through the cell cycle. In spite of their rather similar endogenous fatty acid compositions, the individual phosphoacylglycerols showed distinctive patterns of incorporation of radioactivity from [1-14C]acetate into their acyl moieties. The discontinuous synthesis of acyl lipids observed in cultures of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides synchronized by either stationary-phase cycling or centrifugation selection procedures contrasted with the accumulation of chlorophyll-protein complexes whose amounts were found to increase throughout the cell cycle. The implications of these findings for the control of lipid synthesis in bacterial photosynthetic membranes are discussed.

Lipid biosynthesis in synchronized cultures of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides