International Journal on Algae

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2003, Volume5

Issue 4

106 pages

DOI: 10.1615/InterJAlgae.v5.i4

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V. F. Rudik
Moldova State University, Laboratory of Photomicrobiology, 65a, Kogelnichany St., and Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, National Academy of Sciences of Moldova Republic, 1, Akademicheskaya St., MD 2009 Kishinev, Moldova

V.P. Bul'maga
Moldova State University, Laboratory of Photomicrobiology, 65a, Kogelnichany St., 2009 Kishinev, Moldova

T. V. Kiriyak
Moldova State University, 60, Mateyevich St., 2009 Kishinev, Moldova Republic

L.F. Chapurina
Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Moldova Republic, 1, Akademicheskaya St., 2028 Kishinev, Moldova Republic

The productivity and the content of free amino acids, peptides, protein, phycobiliproteins, polysugars, and lipids in the biomass of the blue-green alga Spirulina platensis (Nordst) Geitl. CALU-835 were studied under the influence of the coordination compounds of zinc of the [Zn (A)₂] and [Zn (A, B)] type. The productivity of Spirulina with the use of [Zn (D, L-Ser)] and [Zn (Gly, D, L-Ser)] was found to grow. The coordination compounds of Zn (II) containing glycine and serine increase the content of phycobiliproteins 1.3 times, that of proteins 1.1-1.2 times, of peptides 2.8-4.2 times, and of free amino acids 1.5 and 2.4 times. The coordination compounds of Zn (II) with L-serine and D, L-alanine are important in cultivation of Spirulina for the production of biomass containing the higher content of polysaccharides and lipids.

DOI: 10.1615/InterJAlgae.v5.i4.50 Download article, 9 pages

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