Synechococcus leopoliensis

N. H. Lawry and T. E. Jensen (1986). Condensed phosphate deposition, sulfur amino acid use, and undirectional transsulfuration in Synechococcus leopoliensis. Arch. Microbiol., 144, 317-323. 

Phenylpropanoid-type compounds have been isolated as the algal inhibitory constituents from the aquatic plant Acorus gramineus [92] using a filter paper-dish bioassay. It was noted that 1,2-dimethoxy-4-(E-3 -methyloxiranyl) benzene (10), l,2,4-trimethoxy-5-(Z-l -propenyl)benzene (11), l,2,4-trimethoxy-5-(E-3 methyloxiranyl)benzene (12), the three most abundant phenylpropanes isolated, were either inhibitory or not in each of the cyanobacterial strains tested which included Anabaena flos-aquae, Nostoc commune, and Synechococcus leopoliensis. 

Croisetiere L, Rouillon R, Carpentier R. A simple mediatorless amperometric method using the cyanobacterium Synechococcus leopoliensis for the detection of phytotoxic pollutants. Appl Microbiol... 

Phosphate competitively inhibited arsenic accumulation by C. vulgaris [28]. The cyanophyte Synechococcus leopoliensis, like a few other algae, was almost insensitive to arsenate and was unusual in that it showed high discrimination for phosphate arsenate uptake was low and its fate was undetermined [30]. In other algae such as Chlamydomonas sp.[31] and Phormidium sp.[32], arsenate decreased phosphate uptake. 

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