Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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All the purple non-sulfur bacteria belong to α-proteobacteria, except Rhodocyclus. Rhodospirillum rubrum is a purple non-sulfur bacteria. It is a gram-negative, facultative anaerobe and is spiral shaped. R. rubrum is found in most of the natural aquatic environment such as lakes, ponds, streams, and also in sewage and mud.

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The advantages of metabolic flexibility in Rhodospirillum rubrum can offset the energetic burden of carrying all the structural and regulatory genes because of having wider cells, presence of larger genome, and having higher G + C content. All these factors together help the bacteria to have the space necessary for the extracellular structures and genes.

The presence of intra-cytoplasmic membranes offsets the energetic burden of the organism. These sites are responsible for the generation of energy. The photosynthetic apparatus is present in the intra-cytoplasmic membrane. It is the place where oxidation and reduction reactions occur to convert the chemical energy to adenosine triphosphate (ATP). These membranes also allow for the increase in the amount of surface area of the plasma membrane.

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