Acetate and bicarbonate assimilation and metabolite formation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: a 13C-NMR study.
Cellular metabolite analyses by (13)C-NMR showed that C.reinhardtii cells assimilate acetate at a faster rate in heterotrophy than in mixotrophy.While heterotrophic cells produced bicarbonate and CO2aq, mixotrophy cells produced bicarbonate alone as predominant metabolite.Experiments with singly (13)C-labelled acetate ((13)CH(3)-COOH or CH(3)-(13)C