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Background  In many works, the chemical composition of bacterially-produced elemental selenium nanoparticles (Se 0 -nanoparticles) was investigated using electron dispersive X-ray analysis. The results suggest that these particles should be associated with organic compounds. However, a complete analysis of their chemical composition is still missing. Aiming at identifying organic compounds associated with the Se 0 -nanoparticles produced by the purple phototrophic bacteria  Rhodospirillum rubrum  and  Rhodobacter capsulatus  ( α  group of the proteobacteria), we used MALDI-TOF spectrometry.   Results  This technic revealed that numerous signals obtained from particles produced by both species of bacteria were from metabolites of the photosynthetic system. Furthermore, not only bacteriochlorophyll  a , bacteriopheophytin  a , and bacteriopheophorbide  a , which are known to accumulate in stationary phase cultures of these bacteria grown phototrophically in the absence of selenite, were identified. The particles were also associated with intermediary metabolites of the bacteriochlorophyll a biosynthesis pathway such as protoporphyrin IX, protoporphyrin IX monomethyl ester, bacteriochlorophyllide  a  and, most likely, Mg-protoporphyrin IX-monomethyl ester, as well as with oxidation products of the substrates of protochlorophyllide reductase and chlorin reductase.   Conclusion  Accumulation of intermediary metabolites of the bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis pathway in these purple phototrophic bacteria was attributed to inhibition of oxygen-sensitive enzymes involved in this pathway. Consistent with this interpretation it has been reported that these bacteria reduce selenite intracellularly, that they contain high levels of glutathione and that the reduction of selenite with glutathione is a very fast reaction accompanied by the production of reactive oxygen species. As many enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll contain [Fe-S] clusters in their active site, which are known to be degraded in the presence of reactive oxygen species as well as in the presence of molecular oxygen, we concluded that the substrates of these enzymes accumulate in cells during selenite reduction.  Association of metabolites of bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis and degradation with the Se 0 -nanoparticles produced by  Rhodospirillum rubrum  and  Rhodobacter capsulatus  is proposed to result from coating of the nanoparticles with the intracytoplasmic membrane of these bacteria, where the photochemical apparatus is concentrated.   Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (10.1186/s12866-018-1209-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Inhibition of bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis in the purple phototrophic bacteria Rhodospirillumrubrum and Rhodobacter capsulatus grown in the presence of a toxic concentration of selenite