INTERACTIONS AMONG VARIANT AND WILD-TYPE STRAINS OF CELLULAR SLIME MOLDS ACROSS THIN AGAR MEMBRANES | Zendy

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INTERACTIONS AMONG VARIANT AND WILD-TYPE STRAINS OF CELLULAR SLIME MOLDS ACROSS THIN AGAR MEMBRANES

Author(s) -

Maurice Sussman,

Frances Lee

Publication year - 1955

Publication title -

proceedings of the national academy of sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011

H-Index - 771

eISSN - 1091-6490

pISSN - 0027-8424

DOI - 10.1073/pnas.41.2.70

Subject(s) - adaptation (eye) , sustainability , macro , climate change , biology , ecology , data science , environmental ethics , environmental resource management , computer science , economics , philosophy , neuroscience , programming language

The present results suggest that light emission in luminous bacteria is under the control of at least two genetic factors which, as far as one can tell, do not affect other reactions essential for the growth of the organism. Bacterial luciferase is a flavoprotein which can catalyze the rapid oxidation of reduced pyridine nucleotides by molecular oxygen,2 and it may have figured more prominently in the metabolism of primitive forms of luminous bacteria as well as other organisms. From an evolutionary standpoint it suggests the possibility that these biochemical reactions which support light emission may have had, in the past, some selective advantage for the survival of the organisms.

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