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Production of iron‐binding compounds by marine microorganisms 1
Author(s) -
Gonye Edward R.,
Carpenter Edward J.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1974.19.5.0840
Subject(s) - sargasso sea , bacteria , environmental chemistry , chemistry , metabolism , marine bacteriophage , biochemistry , biology , oceanography , geology , genetics
Iron‐binding compounds or siderochrome‐producing bacteria are shown to exist in the sea. Siderochromes are iron‐specific chelators important in the iron metabolism of soil microbes. Of 182 Sargasso Sea isolates from the upper 200 m, 43% excrete iron‐binding compounds. Sixteen of these were tested with a relatively insensitive but siderochrome‐specific colorimetric procedure; three showed positive siderochrome production.